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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:07:18 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179197343.6047.47.camel@goldbach>
References: <[email protected]>
	<1179197343.6047.47.camel@goldbach>

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 16:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't modify config.sgml to note
> that "autovacuum = off" does not actually imply that "the autovacuum
> daemon is disabled"? ISTM that plainly violates the principle of least
> surprise -- it is almost the definition of what an entry in config.sgml
> *should* include.

I agree, the note should be added there (but it should be a short one
and refer the reader someplace else for more complete details).

Was there a doc patch proposed already?  I seem to have missed it.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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