Tom Lane wrote:
>"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
>
>
>> Just curious, if I were to submit patches in the next week or so that
>>
>>added new command line options to pg_autovacuum that corresponded to the
>>new vacuum cost delay features, would they still be accepted? I know we
>>are well into beta, but it's also a contrib module, and the changes
>>would be pretty simple.
>>
>>
>
>I would be inclined to accept it, since the cost-delay feature certainly
>needs to play nicely with autovacuum. I was actually surprised to
>discover this hadn't been done already.
>
>If you could get it done today or tomorrow so we can fit it into beta4,
>that would be even better ...
>
Sorry no can do, my weekend is already shot. I could possibly have
something as soon as Sunday or Monday night, we will see.
As to why this wasn't already done, it was something I was planning on
doing for 8.0, however after my autovac integration work got dropped, I
stopped working on it.