In the previous commit message, I forgot to credit Simon Riggs who provided

the patch, which I modified only slightly before applying.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index 73cb19757c9c97d9a70a69fdcc474f6a5a04bc2e..b8300f00cfb2d594629bf4cf7fd254c9b6dcae40 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c,v 1.66 2007/10/26 20:45:10 alvherre Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c,v 1.67 2007/10/29 22:17:41 alvherre Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -2100,7 +2100,8 @@ next_worker:
        /*
         * Save the relation name for a possible error message, to avoid a
         * catalog lookup in case of an error.  Note: they must live in a
-        * long-lived memory context.
+        * long-lived memory context because we call vacuum and analyze in
+        * different transactions.
         */
        datname = get_database_name(MyDatabaseId);
        nspname = get_namespace_name(get_rel_namespace(tab->at_relid));