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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve autovacuum logging for aggressive and anti-wraparound ru
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:49:30 +0900
Message-ID: <20180917114930.GC31460@paquier.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180914153554.562muwr3uwujno75@alvherre.pgsql>
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:35:54PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Sep-13, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Improve autovacuum logging for aggressive and anti-wraparound runs
>> 
>> A log message was being generated when log_min_duration is reached for
>> autovacuum on a given relation to indicate if it was an aggressive run,
>> and missed the point of mentioning if it is doing an anti-wrapround
>> run.  The log message generated is improved so as one, both or no extra
>> details are added depending on the option set.
> 
> Hmm, can a for-wraparound vacuum really not be aggressive?  I think one
> of those four cases is really dead code.

Sure, at the same time it is a no-brainer to keep the code as is, and
seeing log messages where (!aggressive && wraparound) would be an
indication of surrounding bugs, no?  There have been issues in this area
in the past.
--
Michael

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