From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> |
Cc: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends |
Date: | 2005-07-30 14:37:57 |
Message-ID: | 26613.1122734277@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I still haven't added custom cost-based delays, but I don't see that as
>> a showstopper for removing it. I just went through the CVS log and I
>> don't see anything else that applies.
> I think you should at least add an autovacuum specific value for
> "vacuum_cost_delay" because it turns cost-based vacuum delay on or off.
It occurs to me that you could have that today, using the knowledge that
the autovac daemon runs as the bootstrap user: use ALTER USER SET to
attach user-specific vacuum delay settings to that role. This is a
pretty bletcherous solution, because (a) it requires knowledge of an
undocumented implementation detail and (b) it would interfere with using
that role for normal manual maintenance. So I agree that a few extra
GUC settings would be better. But we could get away without 'em.
Along the same lines, it was suggested that we need a way to disable
stats gathering on a per-database basis. We already have it: you can
use ALTER DATABASE SET to control stats_row_level and stats_block_level
that way. Neither of the above two objections apply to this usage, so
I think we can mark off that wishlist item as "done". (Of course, the
soon-to-appear autovac documentation had better mention this trick.)
regards, tom lane
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