Re: Autovacuum in the backend

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> One issue I do have to deal with right now is how many autovacuum
> processes do we want to be running.  The current approach is to have one
> autovacuum process.  Two possible options would be to have one per
> database, and one per tablespace.  What do people think?

Why do we need more than one pg_autovacuum process? (Note that this need 
not necessarily imply only one concurrent VACUUM, as you can use 
non-blocking connections in libpq.)

-Neil