Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>> Actually the reason it's not enabled by default today has nothing to do
>> with either of those; it's
>>
>> 3. Unexpected side effects on foreground processes, such as surprising
>> failures of DROP DATABASE commands. (See archives for details.)
>>
>> Until (3) is addressed I don't think there is any chance of having
>> autovac on by default, and so worrying about (1) and (2) seems a bit
>> premature. Or at least, if you want to work on those fine, but don't
>> expect that it will alter the fact that the factory default is "off".
>>
>
> With that taken care of, do I dare propose enabling autovacuum by
> default, so that further changes will be picked up quickly by the
> buildfarm?
>
>
I should have thought most autovacuum problems would only become evident
after significant running time, while buildfarm runs are quite short.
Of course, some will be apparent right away.
cheers
andrew