Re: unexplained autovacuum to prevent wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: unexplained autovacuum to prevent wraparound
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Msg-id 20100314144321.GA4735@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: unexplained autovacuum to prevent wraparound  (Gordon Shannon <gordo169@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: unexplained autovacuum to prevent wraparound
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Gordon Shannon escribió:
> Ah, now I see what you meant.  Forgive me, I thought you were referring to
> the pg_autovacuum table in 8.3 where you have to specifiy something for each
> column, and -1 says use the default.  It appears in 8.4.0 I have to
> explicitly set ALL (?) other storage parameters to -1 to get the default,
> otherwise I am getting zero for each value??  I don't believe the
> documentation mentions this rather important detail:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-createtable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS.
> Did I miss it somewhere?

Err, no, that would be a bug.  Please update to 8.4.2, I think we fixed
it there.

revision 1.28.2.1
date: 2009-08-27 13:19:31 -0400;  author: alvherre;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -10;
Fix handling of autovacuum reloptions.

In the original coding, setting a single reloption would cause default
values to be used for all the other reloptions.  This is a problem
particularly for autovacuum reloptions.

Itagaki Takahiro


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