<TL>
> No.  There are two StartTransactionCommand calls in autovacuum.c, and
> what I'm suggesting is to add the ActiveSnapshot assignment after each
> one.

<AH>
> Done.

I've changed autovacuum.c per this diff, I 'hope' I misinterpreted what needed 
to be done (see below):

======================================================
-- autovacuum.c_orig   2005-11-28 16:34:49.000000000 +0100
+++ autovacuum.c        2005-11-28 16:37:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -494,6 +494,9 @@
        /* Start a transaction so our commands have one to play into. */
        StartTransactionCommand();

+       /* Begin a transaction for vacuuming this database */
+       ActiveSnapshot = CopySnapshot(GetTransactionSnapshot());
+
        dbRel = heap_open(DatabaseRelationId, AccessShareLock);

        /* Must use a table scan, since there's no syscache for pg_database */
@@ -555,6 +558,9 @@
        /* Start a transaction so our commands have one to play into. */
        StartTransactionCommand();

+       /* Begin a transaction for vacuuming this relation */
+       ActiveSnapshot = CopySnapshot(GetTransactionSnapshot());
+
        /*
         * StartTransactionCommand and CommitTransactionCommand will 
automatically
         * switch to other contexts.  We need this one to keep the list of
======================================================

Both the first and second attempt to restore my development database 
failed..... ;(


Here's a new backtrace:


#0  0x0825361c in CopySnapshot (snapshot=0x0) at tqual.c:1301
1301            newsnap = (Snapshot) palloc(sizeof(SnapshotData) +
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0825361c in CopySnapshot (snapshot=0x0) at tqual.c:1301
#1  0x0814673b in fmgr_sql (fcinfo=0xbfa79e20) at functions.c:319
#2  0x081400bc in ExecMakeFunctionResult (fcache=0x84e3780, 
econtext=0x84e3bd8, isNull=0xbfa7a09b "<\b", isDone=0x0) at execQual.c:1096
#3  0x081426d6 in ExecEvalExprSwitchContext (expression=0x850dfdc, 
econtext=0x0, isNull=0xbfa7a09b "<\b", isDone=0x0) at execQual.c:2865
#4  0x08189e53 in evaluate_expr (expr=0x84e3780, result_type=23) at 
clauses.c:2646
#5  0x0818b8e9 in simplify_function (funcid=267367, result_type=23, 
args=0x84ed6d0, allow_inline=1 '\001', context=0xbfa7a2b0) at clauses.c:2260
#6  0x0818bdea in eval_const_expressions_mutator (node=0x84ed454, 
context=0xbfa7a2b0) at clauses.c:1305
#7  0x0818a5bd in expression_tree_mutator (node=0x84e35a0, mutator=0x818bc10 
<eval_const_expressions_mutator>, context=0xbfa7a2b0) at clauses.c:3473
#8  0x0818be4d in eval_const_expressions_mutator (node=0x84e3694, 
context=0xbfa7a2b0) at clauses.c:1335
#9  0x0818c431 in eval_const_expressions_mutator (node=0x84ed614, 
context=0xbfa7a2b0) at clauses.c:2030
#10 0x0818ca35 in eval_const_expressions (node=0x84e36c0) at clauses.c:1211
#11 0x0822fd83 in RelationGetIndexPredicate (relation=0x4433f40c) at 
relcache.c:2790
#12 0x080cb49f in BuildIndexInfo (index=0x4433f40c) at index.c:900
#13 0x080febd6 in analyze_rel (relid=268480, vacstmt=0x4422f4a0) at 
analyze.c:257
#14 0x0813728b in vacuum (vacstmt=0x4422f4a0, relids=0x44228dcc) at 
vacuum.c:476
#15 0x0819350f in autovacuum_do_vac_analyze (relids=0x4422e528, dovacuum=0 
'\0', doanalyze=1 '\001', freeze=0 '\0') at autovacuum.c:906
#16 0x08193ecd in AutoVacMain (argc=0, argv=0x0) at autovacuum.c:680
#17 0x08194216 in autovac_start () at autovacuum.c:170
#18 0x08199fb1 in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:1268
#19 0x0819b142 in PostmasterMain (argc=3, argv=0x833b8a0) at postmaster.c:943
#20 0x0815bece in main (argc=3, argv=0x833b8a0) at main.c:256








-- 
Best,




Frank.

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