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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Chris Hoover <revoohc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 8.1 - pg_autovacuum question
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Chris Hoover wrote:
> In PostgreSQL 8.1, is the pg_autovacuum daemon affected by the
> vacuum_cost_* variables?  I need to make sure that if we turn
> autovacuuming on when we upgrade to 8.1, we don't cause any i/o
> issues.

What pg_autovacuum daemon?  The contrib one?  I don't know.  The
integrated one?  Yes it is; and you can set autovacuum-specific values
in postgresql.conf and table-specific values (used for autovacuum only)
in pg_autovacuum.

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