Re: Some vacuum & tuning help

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> > Since pg_autovaccum is a contrib module does that mean I can make functional
> > changes that will be included in point release of 7.4?
>
> Well, the bar is lower for contrib stuff than for core, but you'd better
> get such changes in PDQ, I'd say ...

The contrib stuff is usually at the control of the author, so you can
make changes relatively late.  However, the later the changes, the less
testing they get, but the decision is mostly yours, rather than core.

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