Re: CPU-intensive autovacuuming

Phil Endecott wrote:
> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> > The integrated version
> > of autovacuum that didn't make the cut before 8.0 avoids this problem
> > since the autovacuum data is stored in the database.
>
> What is the status of this?  Is it something that will be included in
> 8.1 or 8.0.n?  I might be able to patch the current code but that
> doesn't seem like a useful thing to do if a better solution will arrive
> eventually.  I am currently running vacuums from a cron job and I think
> I will be happy with that for the time being.

I will post about integrating pg_autovacuum into the backend for 8.1 in
a few minutes.

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