Re: new GUC var: autovacuum_process_all_tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: new GUC var: autovacuum_process_all_tables
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Msg-id 498C51E8.1040402@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: new GUC var: autovacuum_process_all_tables  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> All I'm saying is *if* we put scheduling inside Postgres for autovacuum
> *then* we should make it general purpose scheduling.
>
> If anybody uses the argument that "we have external schedulers, so don't
> put them in the database" then that argument applies equally to
> scheduling autovacuum. It's easy to turn autovacuum on/off via an
> external scheduler, yet look upthread and see how many people think it
> should be in the database.
>
> Whichever way you think the decision should go, the same arguments apply
> to scheduling autovacuum and scheduling other database maintenance
> tasks.
>
>   

OK, I agree with that.

cheers

andrew



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