Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
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Msg-id 1179117269.6047.3.camel@goldbach
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In response to Re: Autovacuum and XID wraparound  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, 2007-13-05 at 22:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we really
> need two more?

I think we need to at least modify the documentation for the autovacuum
GUC parameter, which currently states only that it "controls whether the
server should run the autovacuum launcher daemon" -- this is not
strictly true, and in any case, it isn't the whole story.

> The proposed addition to postgresql.conf seems particularly
> over-the-top

I agree that this information doesn't really belong in postgresql.conf.

-Neil



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