On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:09:47PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >One issue I do have to deal with right now is how many autovacuum > >processes do we want to be running. The current approach is to have one > >autovacuum process. Two possible options would be to have one per > >database, and one per tablespace. What do people think? > > Why do we need more than one pg_autovacuum process?
The only reason I considered it is because you can use the regular catalog-management routines to handle the new pg_autovacuum system catalog. With a single process, we need to issue SQL queries. This is very ugly IMHO. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>) "Tiene valor aquel que admite que es un cobarde" (Fernandel) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
