Re: GSoC's possible project

Germán Poó Caamaño escribió:
> I'm a student and I'm planning to submit a project for Google Summer of
> Code.  I would like to receive feedback about to implement the vacumm
> scheduling in order to allow maintenance's windows.
> 
> I have read the whole discussion about "Autovacuum improvements"[1]
> taken in January.  Alvaro Herrera suggested two improvements,
> (probably following an idea of Matthew T. O'Connor), which were:
> - Scheduling (a maintenance window)
> - Process Handling.
> 
> As fas as I know, the process handling is a work in progress[2], while
> the scheduling is defined (almost complete) but not implemented yet.

Just for the record, I support this project and I can mentor it.

> Which is not clear to me (yet), if it would required collecting enough
> information through implementing a sort of 'VACUUM SUMMARY'[3].

I would think this is a separate project from the maintenance window
change proper.

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