Re: Autovacuum launcher doesn't notice death of postmaster immediately

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:04:26AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The launcher is set up to wake up in autovacuum_naptime seconds at most.
> So if the user configures a ridiculuos time (for example 86400 seconds,
> which I've seen) then the launcher would not detect the postmaster death

Yeah, I've seen people set that up with the intention of "now autovacuum
will only run during our slow time!". I'm thinking it'd be worth
mentioning in the docs that this won't work, and instead suggesting that
they run vacuumdb -a or equivalent at that time instead. Thoughts?
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