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To: John Naylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: do only critical work during single-user vacuum?
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:42:20 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:34 PM John Naylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> The word "advice" sounds like people have a choice, rather than the
> system not accepting commands anymore. It would be much less painful
> if the system closed connections and forbade all but superusers to
> connect, but that sounds like a lot of work. (happy to be proven
> otherwise)
They *do* have a choice. They can continue to operate the system in
multi-user mode, they can have read access to their data, and they can
run VACUUM and other non-XID-allocating commands to fix the issue.
Sure, their application can't run commands that allocate XIDs, but
it's not going to be able to do that if they go to single-user mode
either.
I don't understand why we would want the system to stop accepting
connections other than superuser connections. That would provide
strictly less functionality and I don't understand what it would gain.
But it would still be better than going into single-user mode, which
provides even less functionality and has basically no advantages of
any kind.
Why are you convinced that the user HAS to go to single-user mode? I
don't think they have to do that, and I don't think they should want
to do that.
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Robert Haas
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