Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends
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Msg-id 200507301457.j6UEvFR20670@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >>> I think you should at least add an autovacuum specific value for
> >>> "vacuum_cost_delay" because it turns cost-based vacuum delay on or off.
>
> > I am thinking we should move ahead with what we have now, suggest the
> > work-arounds, and thensee what use-cases we have for it for later
> > releases.
>
> I think it's absolutely unquestionable that there is a use-case for
> running autovac with different vacuum-delay settings than you would
> want to apply to manually issued vacuums.  We don't need to wait for
> field experience on that one; we already have it with the contrib
> version.

So do we need to add new GUC variables?

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