On 30 November 2012 19:02, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The subject says it all.
>
> There are workloads where its detrimental, but in general having it
> default to on improver experience tremendously because getting conflicts
> because of vacuum is rather confusing.
>
> In the workloads where it might not be a good idea (very long queries on
> the standby, many dead tuples on the primary) you need to think very
> carefuly about the strategy of avoiding conflicts anyway, and explicit
> configuration is required as well.
>
> Does anybody have an argument against changing the default value?
I don't see a technical objection, perhaps others do.
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