Re: Autovacuum in the backend

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum in the backend
Date: 2005-06-16 21:03:10
Message-ID: 42B1E90E.7080602@dunslane.net
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Andreas Pflug wrote:

>
> We're having a growing zoo of daemons that can be regarded as tightly
> integrated server add-on processes (slony, autovac, pgAgent), and it
> would be really nice (say: win32 users are used to it, thus requiring
> it) to have a single point of control.
>
> Maybe a super daemon (in win32 probably pg_ctl), controlling
> postmaster and all those helper processes (accessible through pgsql
> functions, of course) would be the solition. This keeps the kernel
> clean, separates backend shmem from helper processes and enables
> control over all processes.
>

And this will be ready when? I thought we were discussing what could be
done regarding AVitB between now and feature freeze for 8.1 in about 2
weeks. This surely doesn't come into that category.

cheers

andrew

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