Re: GucContext of log_autovacuum - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: GucContext of log_autovacuum
Date
Msg-id 1185259535.4263.45.camel@ebony.site
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In response to GucContext of log_autovacuum  (ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:50 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> The GucContext of log_autovacuum is PGC_BACKEND in the CVS HEAD,
> but should it be PGC_SIGHUP? We cannot modify the variable on-the-fly
> because the parameter is used only by autovacuum worker processes.
> The similar variables, like autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor, are
> defined as PGC_SIGHUP.

Agreed, PGC_SIGHUP seems a much better setting. The PGC_BACKEND setting
originated with me and probably nobody thought to change that aspect of
the patch. 

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