Re: Enhancement request

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:34:02 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake escribió:
>
> > Autovacuum is a great utility for many workloads but even with the
> > upcoming changes I will continually find myself turning off
> > autovacuum for specific relations just so I can turn around and
> > turn on vacuum within cron for others.
> >
> > The multi-worker autovacuum is a great new addition to help part of
> > that problem (starvation) but it is not help against the other
> > (resource consumption, specifically IO).
>
> Huh, autovac will consume exactly the same amount of I/O as a
> user-induced vacuum, so I don't see your point.

It can be determined "when" the I/O is used.

> Remember, we're not adding VACUUM SCHEMA in 8.2 so it doesn't make any
> sense to try to compare it against the old autovac.  And you can bet
> that in 8.4 autovac will have even more goodies.
>

I assume you mean 8.3, but that is certainly a valid point.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake