Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:07:18 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
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	<1179197343.6047.47.camel@goldbach>
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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.

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