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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Autovacuum in the backend
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Msg-id 42B1E90E.7080602@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Autovacuum in the backend  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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Andreas Pflug wrote:

>
> We're having a growing zoo of daemons that can be regarded as tightly 
> integrated server add-on processes (slony, autovac, pgAgent), and it 
> would be really nice (say: win32 users are used to it, thus requiring 
> it) to have a single point of control.
>
> Maybe a super daemon (in win32 probably pg_ctl), controlling 
> postmaster and all those helper processes (accessible through pgsql 
> functions, of course) would be the solition. This keeps the kernel 
> clean, separates backend shmem from helper processes and enables 
> control over all processes.
>

And this will be ready when? I thought we were discussing what could be 
done regarding AVitB between now and feature freeze for 8.1 in about 2 
weeks. This surely doesn't come into that category.

cheers

andrew


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