Re: fillfactor hides autovacuum parameters in 8.4.0

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4.0
> Operating system:   all versions
>
> If we set FILLFACTOR to a table, autovacuum parameters in postgresql.conf
> will not affect to the table; default values are always used.
>
> In 8.4.0, we create StdRdOptions if a relation has some fields in
> pg_class.reloption. Then, unspecified fields are filled with the
> default values. The values are always hard-coded default values and
> don't reflect current GUC settings.

Hmm, I'm fairly sure the code had this right originally ... maybe it got
drowned in some of the infinite reworking of that patch and I neglected
to test it.  I'll have a look tomorrow.

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