Excerpts from Daniel Farina's message of jue may 03 17:04:03 -0400 2012:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Possibly. I have some fear of ending up with too many background
> > processes, but we may need them.
>
> I sort of care about this, but only on systems that are not very busy
> and could otherwise get by with fewer resources -- for example, it'd
> be nice to turn off autovacuum and the stat collector if it really
> doesn't have to be around. Perhaps a Nap Commander[0] process or
> procedure (if baked into postmaster, to optimize to one process from
> two) would do the trick?
I'm not sure I see the point in worrying about this at all. I mean, a
process doing nothing does not waste much resources, does it? Other
than keeping a PID that you can't use for other stuff.
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