"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your objection is let's keep it as difficult as possible within the > existing paradigm because nobody thought pg_autovacuum could be useful > in the first place.
No, my point is that there's no value in putting band-aids on an object that was never designed to be user-friendly. The extra ease of use from putting defaults on that table's columns is insignificant compared to what we'd get by fixing its *real* problems: * superuser-only, no mechanism to let users admin their own tables (nor any way to reconcile user-set values with a DBA's possible wish to override them) * no support for dumping and restoring settings I don't think we should be encouraging direct manual insertions into pg_autovacuum in any case. So I'd rather see some effort spent on figuring out what the API really *should* look like. I don't know, other than that it should hard-wire as little as possible because we are likely to be changing the set of available parameters in future. Maybe we need a concept like per-table settings for GUC variables? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match