On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:09:47PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >One issue I do have to deal with right now is how many autovacuum
> >processes do we want to be running. The current approach is to have one
> >autovacuum process. Two possible options would be to have one per
> >database, and one per tablespace. What do people think?
>
> Why do we need more than one pg_autovacuum process?
The only reason I considered it is because you can use the regular
catalog-management routines to handle the new pg_autovacuum system
catalog. With a single process, we need to issue SQL queries. This is
very ugly IMHO.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
"Tiene valor aquel que admite que es un cobarde" (Fernandel)
