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From: David Fetter <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:15:03 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:06:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <[email protected]> writes:
> > Per Neil Conway, here's some doc patches re: the autovacuum
> > daemon's behavior.  Should this be back-patched to 8.2x?
> 
> This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we
> really need two more?

Yes.

> The proposed addition to postgresql.conf seems particularly
> over-the-top, since there is no entry in that file that even
> pretends to offer a complete description of the associated behavior.

I think that a boolean that doesn't do what you expect booleans to do,
i.e. turn the thing all the way off, is worth a mention.

Cheers,
David.
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David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/
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