Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
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Msg-id 200504291409.j3TE9hb27652@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
> > In the last exciting episode, pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) wrote:
> >> o integrated auto-vacuum (Bruce)
> 
> > If this can kick off a vacuum of a Very Large Table at an unfortunate
> > time, this can turn out to be a prety painful misfeature.
> 
> [ shrug... ]  You'll always be able to turn it off if you don't want it.
> I'm not sure that we'll be ready to turn it on by default even in 8.1.

Agreed.  It will just be there to turn on from postgresql.conf if you
want it, and we do have TODO information about keeping such an FSM for
recently expired pages.

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