Re: Autovacuum in the backend

On T, 2005-06-14 at 21:23 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> One goal for 8.1 is to move /contrib/pg_autovacuum in to the backend.  I
> think it has to be done in four stages:
> 
>     o  move it into the backend and have it start/stop automatically
>     o  move the autovacuum configuration parameters into postgresql.conf
>     o  modify the code to use the backend API for error recovery
>     o  modify the code to use the backend API utilities, like hashes
> 
> Who would like to get started on this?  It seems pretty straight-forward.

Can autovacuum yet be configured _not_ to run vacuum during some hours
or above some load ?

Even better - to stop or pause a long-running vacuum if load goes above
some limit.

If it goes into backend before the above is done, it should at least be
possible to switch it off completely.

-- 
Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>