Re: autovacuum and reloptions

From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum and reloptions
Date: 2009-02-06 22:45:22
Message-ID: 498CBD82.1000308@timbira.com
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Alvaro Herrera escreveu:
>> (ii) I think we should change the expression "storage parameters" for
>> something else because autovacuum is related to maintenance. My suggestion is
>> a general expression like "relation parameters";
>
> I'm not sure I agree with this idea, because the term "storage
> parameter" has been used for several releases already. This would be a
> relatively major terminology change.
>
I don't buy your argument. 'fillfactor' is a _storage_ parameter but
'autovacuum_enabled' is not. I don't like terminology changes too but in this
case it sounds strange calling autovacuum_* as storage parameters.

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