"Jim Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the other hand, this would be the only part of the system where > the official interface/API is a system catalog table.
I don't think it was ever intended by anyone that that would be the long-term solution. Where we are currently at is experimenting to find out what autovacuum's control knobs ought to be. The catalog table was a suitably low-effort way to expose a first cut at the knobs. The fact that pg_dump doesn't dump the settings is entirely deliberate: that's to avoid locking us into a forward compatibility commitment before we're ready. Once we are happy with the control design, we can think about what the long-term API ought to be. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster