Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > Lately I have been thinking about the next steps for the > pg_autovacuum daemon. I have written up a document that describes > what I'm planning to do next. Please read the attached and response > as I would really like some feedback.
I think these configuration issues will become a lot easier if you make the autovacuum daemon a subprocess of the postmaster (like, say, the checkpoint process). Then you have access to a host of methods for storing state, handling configuration, etc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster