Re: Question / requests.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Francisco Olarte
>> <folarte@peoplecall.com> wrote:
>> > After some messages due to vacuumdb auto-deadlocking itself on the
>> > system tables when doing paralell vacuum of a full database I
>> > suggested adding some flags to make vacuumdb process schemas. I was
>> > asked wether I could write a patch for that and I am thinking on doing
>> > it.
>>
>> What messages are you seeing, exactly? "auto-deadlocking" isn't a thing.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/57EBC9AE.2060302%40163.com
>
> I wonder if the real answer isn't just to disallow -f with parallel
> vacuuming.

Seems like we should figure out which catalog tables are needed in
order to perform a VACUUM, and force those to be done last and one at
a time.

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