Re: Autovacuum in the backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Autovacuum in the backend
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Msg-id 42B0FB8B.1000600@samurai.com
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In response to Re: Autovacuum in the backend  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
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Re: Autovacuum in the backend
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> One issue I do have to deal with right now is how many autovacuum
> processes do we want to be running.  The current approach is to have one
> autovacuum process.  Two possible options would be to have one per
> database, and one per tablespace.  What do people think?

Why do we need more than one pg_autovacuum process? (Note that this need 
not necessarily imply only one concurrent VACUUM, as you can use 
non-blocking connections in libpq.)

-Neil


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