Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Who said anything about external schedulers? I remind you that this is
> AUTOvacuum. If you want to implement manual scheduling you can still
> use plain 'ol vacuum commands.
I think we can split autovacuum into two (or more?) functions:
task gatherers and task workers. We don't have to bother with
the monolithic style of current autovacuum.
Galy said:
> The task queue might be filled by dedicated task-gathering-worker or it
> might be filled by *external task gatherer*.
Alvaro said:
> The idea of an external task gatherer is an interesting one which I
> think would make sense to implement in the future. I think it is not
> very difficult to implement once the proposal we're currently discussing
> is done
I said:
> Though we can use a completely separated autovacuum daemon like as
> contrib/pg_autovacuum of 8.0, but I think it is good for us to share
> some of the codes between a built-in scheduler and external ones.
Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center
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