Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
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Msg-id 20070515130718.GA5339@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 16:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I agree with Tom.  I don't think the current behavior is a major issue
> > for users for it to be mentioned more than it already is
>
> Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't modify config.sgml to note
> that "autovacuum = off" does not actually imply that "the autovacuum
> daemon is disabled"? ISTM that plainly violates the principle of least
> surprise -- it is almost the definition of what an entry in config.sgml
> *should* include.

I agree, the note should be added there (but it should be a short one
and refer the reader someplace else for more complete details).

Was there a doc patch proposed already?  I seem to have missed it.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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