Douglas McNaught wrote:
>"Brandon Metcalf" <bmetcalf@nortel.com> writes:
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>>I've been looking at the auto vacuum daemon pgavd and it looks like
>>there hasn't been any development activity in a while. Does anyone
>>know that status of pgavd?
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>>Also, I'd be interested in hearing how well it works and if there are
>>any plans to include this daemon in the pgsql distribution.
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>You obviously just joined this list, as there's been extensive
>discussion of that very issue over the last few days. :)
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>Take a look at the recent archives (and those for -hackers as well)
>but the upshot is that there is definitely a push to get AV integrated
>into the backend for 8.1.
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There has been extensive conversation in the last few days, however I
think Brandon is referencing pgavd which is a project on gborg, which
was an autovacuum implementation started by someone else that never took
off. This is totally separate from pg_autovacuum that is in contrib.
In my opinion that project is dead and could be removed.