On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 07:13, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> Yes. I really thing that it should be on by default, because those who
> will need it more than others are those who will not know about tuning
> configuration parameters. As I understand the requirements from
> pg_autovacuum, it means that some statistics will have to be on by default
> as well.
>
The debian package automatically makes a vacuum entry in the crontab.
So, to a certain extent, this could be solved at the distribution level.
However, the pg_autovacuum project will be a great improvement over
that. Right now, the distributions mostly care about MySQL, so it will
be nice to have postgresql handle that detail.
Jeff