On 2017/09/26 9:51, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Michael Paquier > <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Yeah, I'd noticed that while reviewing the vacuum-multiple-tables patch. >>> My thought about fixing it was to pass a null RangeVar when handling a >>> table we'd identified through inheritance or pg_class-scanning, to >>> indicate that this wasn't a table named in the original command. This >>> only works conveniently if you decide that it's appropriate to silently >>> ignore relation_open failure on such table OIDs, but I think it is. >>> >>> Not sure about whether we ought to try to fix that in v10. It's a >>> mostly-cosmetic problem in what ought to be an infrequent corner case, >>> so it might not be worth taking risks for post-RC1. OTOH, I would >>> not be surprised to get bug reports about it down the road. >> >> Something like that looks like a good compromise for v10. I would >> rather see a more complete fix with each relation name reported >> correctly on HEAD though. The information provided would be useful for >> users when using autovacuum when skipping a relation because no lock >> could be taken on it. > > Actually, perhaps this should be tracked as an open item? A simple fix > is leading to the path that no information is better than misleading > information in this case.
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