Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>
>>Moved to -hackers where this belongs :)
>
>
>>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Justin Clift wrote:
>>
>>>Would making max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages dynamically update
>>>themselves whilst PostgreSQL runs be useful?
>
>
> Possibly, but it isn't happening in the foreseeable future, for the same
> reason that we don't auto-update shared_buffers and the other shared
> memory sizing parameters: we can't resize shared memory on the fly.

Right but we can create a new segment and use it too. I don't know how
these segments are used but I used to do it in the past, of course you have
to create a memory manager that handle not ccntinuous segments.
Of course this only if the effort to do it can justify the man power working
on it.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola