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authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2007-06-14 13:54:28 +0000
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2007-06-14 13:54:28 +0000
commita0084306e75f4f0cc997f31f9013e71348aa9640 (patch)
treee151b3bf61f167fcf78dc97d17979d5bedd6c2e1 /src
parent0998720d0cf4bf6197d2d8d4caef77dbe03a0e18 (diff)
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Avoid having autovacuum run multiple ANALYZE commands in a single transaction,
to prevent possible deadlock problems. Per request from Tom Lane.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/commands/vacuum.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c b/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
index f14d798fa42..304cc325d38 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.342.2.2 2007/03/14 18:49:04 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.342.2.3 2007/06/14 13:54:28 alvherre Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -338,14 +338,17 @@ vacuum(VacuumStmt *vacstmt, List *relids)
* For ANALYZE (no VACUUM): if inside a transaction block, we cannot
* start/commit our own transactions. Also, there's no need to do so if
* only processing one relation. For multiple relations when not within a
- * transaction block, use own transactions so we can release locks sooner.
+ * transaction block, and also in an autovacuum worker, use own
+ * transactions so we can release locks sooner.
*/
if (vacstmt->vacuum)
use_own_xacts = true;
else
{
Assert(vacstmt->analyze);
- if (in_outer_xact)
+ if (IsAutoVacuumProcess())
+ use_own_xacts = true;
+ else if (in_outer_xact)
use_own_xacts = false;
else if (list_length(relations) > 1)
use_own_xacts = true;