Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> I've noticed that if for example the autovacuum process dies (such as >> with a kill -9 when testing my new shared mem implementation), only >> autovac and bgwriter are restarted. The stats collector is terminated, >> but not restarted. (Same goes for a regular backend, and not just >> autovac) >> >> Is there a reason for this, or is it a bug?
> I would say it is a bug, because the comments and code in ServerLoop() > and reaper() say different. There is code in pgstat_start that limits the frequency with which new stats collectors can be spawned --- maybe your test case is hitting that? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate