Re: Autovacuum in the backend

Andreas Pflug wrote:

>
> We're having a growing zoo of daemons that can be regarded as tightly 
> integrated server add-on processes (slony, autovac, pgAgent), and it 
> would be really nice (say: win32 users are used to it, thus requiring 
> it) to have a single point of control.
>
> Maybe a super daemon (in win32 probably pg_ctl), controlling 
> postmaster and all those helper processes (accessible through pgsql 
> functions, of course) would be the solition. This keeps the kernel 
> clean, separates backend shmem from helper processes and enables 
> control over all processes.
>

And this will be ready when? I thought we were discussing what could be 
done regarding AVitB between now and feature freeze for 8.1 in about 2 
weeks. This surely doesn't come into that category.

cheers

andrew