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From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:34:29 -0400
Message-ID: <1179117269.6047.3.camel@goldbach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23394.1179108400@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20070514011740.GH14860@fetter.org>
	<23394.1179108400@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On Sun, 2007-13-05 at 22:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we really
> need two more?

I think we need to at least modify the documentation for the autovacuum
GUC parameter, which currently states only that it "controls whether the
server should run the autovacuum launcher daemon" -- this is not
strictly true, and in any case, it isn't the whole story.

> The proposed addition to postgresql.conf seems particularly
> over-the-top

I agree that this information doesn't really belong in postgresql.conf.

-Neil





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