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To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
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Subject: Re: Autovacuum and XID wraparound 
In-reply-to: <20070514011740.GH14860@fetter.org> 
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Comments: In-reply-to David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
	message dated "Sun, 13 May 2007 18:17:40 -0700"
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:06:40 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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?  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.

			regards, tom lane