Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
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Msg-id 4272555D.3030500@zeut.net
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In response to Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
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>>If this can kick off a vacuum of a Very Large Table at an unfortunate
>>time, this can turn out to be a prety painful misfeature.
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>[ shrug... ]  You'll always be able to turn it off if you don't want it.
>I'm not sure that we'll be ready to turn it on by default even in 8.1.
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What to people think about having an optional "maintenance window" so 
that autovac only takes action during an approved time.  But perhaps 
just using the vacuum delay settings will be enough.



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