Absolutely, I have been looking into this and I have some thoughts, but right
now all I was trying to do was some rough implementations just to help me
make sure I understand all / most of the issues. I am very new to hacking on
the guts of the backend.
I plan on posting a formal proposal when I feel more confident as to what I'm
talking about.
On Friday 16 August 2002 10:10 am, Jan Wieck wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" wrote:
> > Hello, I'm playing with creating an auto vacuum daemon, but it is my
> > first time inside the pg source code and I'm a bit lost.
> >
> > I have gotten as far as having a vacuum daemon created on postmaster
> > startup. It's just a fork from the postmaster, cribbed mostly from the
> > stat collector code.
>
> I recall that there has been discussion and so far the conclusion that
> an automatic vacuum daemon is not the solution everyone needs. If you
> really want to spend the effort on doing this, can we please see some
> proposal about possible configuration options, how the daemon decides
> what to vacuum when and the like?
>
>
> Jan
