On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:07:27AM +0000, Gregory Stark wrote: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You are offering what appears to be a "solution". A perfectly valid one > >> in fact. Which one is going to get done first? Which one is going to > >> provide immediate benefit? > > > > The problem is that your "immediate benefit" is to encourage people > > to do direct manual insertions into pg_autovacuum, which is something > > that we shouldn't be encouraging, because it's not the correct long-term > > solution. Or even short-term --- it seems reasonably likely to me that > > something could be done about building a decent API in the 8.4 cycle, > > which is the soonest we could entertain a proposal to put defaults on > > pg_autovacuum anyway. > > Are you picturing adding ALTER TABLE commands to set autovacuum parameters? Or > do you mean for tools like pgadmin to control this? Because the latter could > happen even during the 8.3 cycle (though I perhaps not with pgadmin itself > which I think follows the Postgres release cycle).
Of course, pgadmin already does this :-P Ask that tall guy sitting next to you for a demo... What it doesn't do is help you figure out what values to put in... //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly