Make autovacuum more selective about temp tables to keep

alvherre · alvherre · commit a6ca47cd2f3f · 2018-12-27T16:00:39.000-03:00
When temp tables are in danger of XID wraparound, autovacuum drops them; however, it preserves those that are owned by a working session. This is desirable, except when the session is connected to a different database (because the temp tables cannot be from that session), so make it only keep the temp tables only if the backend is in the same database as the temp tables. This is not bulletproof: it fails to detect temp tables left by a session whose backend ID is reused in the same database but the new session does not use temp tables. Commit 943576b fixes that case too, for branches 11 and up (which is why we don't apply this fix to those branches), but back-patching that one is not universally agreed on. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181214162843.37g6h3txto43akrb@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Michaël Paquier
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -2084,13 +2084,18 @@ do_autovacuum(void)
 		if (classForm->relpersistence == RELPERSISTENCE_TEMP)
 		{
 			int			backendID;
+			PGPROC	   *proc;
 
 			backendID = GetTempNamespaceBackendId(classForm->relnamespace);
 
-			/* We just ignore it if the owning backend is still active */
+			/*
+			 * We just ignore it if the owning backend is still active in the
+			 * same database.
+			 */
 			if (backendID != InvalidBackendId &&
 				(backendID == MyBackendId ||
-				 BackendIdGetProc(backendID) == NULL))
+				 (proc = BackendIdGetProc(backendID)) == NULL ||
+				 proc->databaseId != MyDatabaseId))
 			{
 				/*
 				 * The table seems to be orphaned -- although it might be that
