Re: Re: [GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

[Stuart Bishop <stuart(at)stuartbishop(dot)net>]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

>> This is exactly what happened, and temporary tables belonging to other
>> sessions where fed to pgstattuple.
>
> +1 for throwing an error. That's what we do for views, composite types, and
> GIN indexes as well. If you want to write a query to call pgstattuple for
> all tables in pg_class, you'll need to exclude all those cases anyway. To
> exclude temp tables of other sessions, you'll need to add "AND
> pg_is_other_temp_schema(relnamespace)".

I would have expected an exception to be raised personally.

> I'm ok with returning NULLs as well, but returning zeroes doesn't feel
> right.


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