Re: Autovacuum in the backend

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum in the backend
Date: 2005-06-16 04:58:01
Message-ID: 42B106D9.1000405@zeut.net
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Neil Conway wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> One issue I do have to deal with right now is how many autovacuum
>> processes do we want to be running. The current approach is to have one
>> autovacuum process. Two possible options would be to have one per
>> database, and one per tablespace. What do people think?
>
>
> Why do we need more than one pg_autovacuum process? (Note that this
> need not necessarily imply only one concurrent VACUUM, as you can use
> non-blocking connections in libpq.)

Part of the backend integration work Alvaro is doing is teaching
autovacuum to do it's work without libpq.

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