Re: pgsql-server: Vacuum delay activated by default. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql-server: Vacuum delay activated by default.
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Msg-id 384.1091897158@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql-server: Vacuum delay activated by default.  (wieck@svr1.postgresql.org (Jan Wieck))
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> On 8/7/2004 12:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What?  If there was consensus to do this, I missed it.  If there was
>> even any *discussion* of doing this, I missed it.

> How many questions about vacuum still grabbing all available bandwidth,
> vacuum slowing down the whole system, vacuum being all evil do you want
> to answer for 8.0? Over and over again we are defending reasonable
> default configuration values against gazillions of little switches, and
> this is a reasonable default that will be a relief for large databases
> and makes more or less no difference for small ones.

What basis do you have for saying that this is a reasonable default?
Does anyone else agree?

Again, it's the lack of discussion that is bothering me.

            regards, tom lane

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