On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 18:09, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
> Hmm. Your last point in particular is one I hadn't considered, yet,
> largely because it's not relevant to my current problem. For a more
> generalized solution, though, it should definitely be considered.
Yeah, but as you say, for what you are doing, you probably don't need to
worry about it.
> Does pg_autovacuum currently store the pid of the postmaster against
> which it's being run? In fact, how does it know against which
> postmaster it's being run? It doesn't take a database as an argument,
> does it?
No it doesn't store the PID or anything like that and it doesn't know
what postmaster it's connecting to, it just connects to what ever
postmaster is listing to the specified host and port.