Alex Lai <mlai@sesda3.com> writes:
> I have been reading few posted comment about the risk for autovacuum for
> older postgres liek version 8.
> I am currently running 9.2.4.
autovacuum ignores any system-wide setting of statement_timeout
(and lock_timeout, where applicable) in all versions back to
at least 8.3.
That doesn't make a system-wide setting necessarily a good idea,
but this particular argument against it doesn't hold water.
regards, tom lane