Re: Per-tablespace autovacuum settings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Per-tablespace autovacuum settings
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Msg-id 21542.1550164857@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Per-tablespace autovacuum settings  (Oleksii Kliukin <alexk@hintbits.com>)
Responses Re: Per-tablespace autovacuum settings  (Oleksii Kliukin <alexk@hintbits.com>)
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Oleksii Kliukin <alexk@hintbits.com> writes:
> Is there any interest in making autovacuum parameters available on a
> tablespace level in order to apply those to all vacuumable objects in the
> tablespace?

I understand what you want to accomplish, and it doesn't seem
unreasonable.  But I just want to point out that the situation with
vacuuming parameters is on the edge of unintelligible already; adding
another scope might push it over the edge.  In particular there's no
principled way to decide whether an autovacuum parameter set at an outer
scope should override a plain-vacuum parameter set at a narrower scope.
And it's really questionable which of database-wide and tablespace-wide
should be seen as a narrower scope in the first place.

I don't know how to make this better, but I wish we'd take a step
back and think about it rather than just accreting more and more
complexity.

            regards, tom lane


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