Re: pgsql-server: Vacuum delay activated by default.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>> On 8/7/2004 12:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> What?  If there was consensus to do this, I missed it.  If there was
>>> even any *discussion* of doing this, I missed it.
>
>> How many questions about vacuum still grabbing all available bandwidth,
>> vacuum slowing down the whole system, vacuum being all evil do you want
>> to answer for 8.0? Over and over again we are defending reasonable
>> default configuration values against gazillions of little switches, and
>> this is a reasonable default that will be a relief for large databases
>> and makes more or less no difference for small ones.
>
> What basis do you have for saying that this is a reasonable default?
> Does anyone else agree?

Just curious, but isn't this one of the key points about pg_autovacuum in
the first place?  So that you vacuum what needs to be vacuum'd, and not
*everything* ... ?  Shouldn't the answer to the 'bandwidth issue' change
to 'you should install/use pg_autovacuum'?

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