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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:44:32 -0500
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"Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]> writes:
> Moved to -hackers where this belongs :)

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Justin Clift wrote:
>> Would making max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages dynamically update 
>> themselves whilst PostgreSQL runs be useful?

Possibly, but it isn't happening in the foreseeable future, for the same
reason that we don't auto-update shared_buffers and the other shared
memory sizing parameters: we can't resize shared memory on the fly.

> I'm not sure if I like this one too much ... but it would be nice if 
> something like this triggered a warning in the logs, maybe a feature of 
> pg_autovacuum itself?

autovacuum would probably be a reasonable place to put it.  We don't
currently have any good way for autovacuum to get at the information,
but I suppose that an integrated autovacuum daemon could do so.

			regards, tom lane



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