On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 10:36 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 11/16/10 9:27 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I'm a little skeptical about creating more memory tunables. DBAs who
> > are used to previous versions of PG will find that their vacuum is now
> > really slow, because they adjusted maintenance_work_mem but not this
>
> Also, generally people who are using autovacuum don't do much manual
> vacuuming, and when they do, it's easy enough to do a SET before you
> issue the VACUUM statement.
>
> So, -1 for yet another GUC.
Agreed. If we are going to do anything, it should be pushed to a per
object level (at least table) with ALTER TABLE. We don't need yet
another global variable.
JD
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