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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:22:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

David Fetter wrote:
> 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.

I agree with Tom.  I don't think the current behavior is a major issue
for users for it to be mentioned more than it already is, though if you
want to move one of those, we can do that.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>          http://momjian.us
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