Re: maintenance_work_mem and autovacuum

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> That said, it would be unnecessary if I could use ROLES to set 
>> parameters more reliably ....

> Hmmm, perhaps the right way to do this is to have a user called
> "autovacuum" that is used to perform autovacuums. 

Interesting idea, but maybe we should wait on it until we see what
(if any) changes we are going to put into the relationship between
roles and parameters.  Josh seems not to be happy with that ...
        regards, tom lane