Re: [GENERAL] A way to let Vacuum warn if FSM settings are

Ron Mayer wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >>I never heard any discussion on whether this should be backpatched to
> >>8.0.X. Should it?
>
> I personally think it should _not_ be backpatched. Since it
> doesn't fix any bugs, it's not really the kind of thing I
> would expect to be backpatched.
>

OK, just asking.

> > I'm not inclined to throw it in at the last minute, as it's not been
> > through any testing and I'm not sure the behavior has really been agreed
> > on anyway. (The diff you cite starts from code that's not in 8.0.* either.)
>
> Regarding the behavior I pretty much thought it was agreed upon.
> I saw people proposing reasons advocating both the log file and
> the client getting the message. Simon's "Can we have both?"
> comment got one positive response (Bruce's with the patch) and
> no negative ones, I thought that indicated general agreement.
>
> If we did want to re-open the behavior question, I might mention
> that this message is only printed on a database-wide VACUUM; and
> with autovacuum targeting specific tables such database-wide
> VACUUMs might become more and more rare. But I think that's a
> separate issue.

Yea, I think we are agreed. I was not asking for 8.0.2 but just 8.0.X
in general. I ask only to see if someone jumps up and wants to explain
why it should be in 8.0.X.

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