Re: Autovacuum integration patch

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:03:12AM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
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>>Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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>Sorry, forgot to mention:
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>>>- There are no docs
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>>I can help here as long as I don't have to have the docs done before July 1.
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>You don't.  Ok, so I'm not writing any docs, I leave that to you :-)
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Ok.

>>>- There are no ALTER TABLE commands to change the pg_autovacuum
>>>attributes for a table. (Enable/disable, set thresholds and scaling
>>>factor)
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>>I don't think we need this do we?  Mucking around in the autovacuum
>>table shouldn't cause the system any serious problems, if you do mess up
>>your values, it's easy to just reset them all to 0 and start back with
>>the defaults.
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>The problem is you have to be superuser to be able to do it.  An ALTER
>TABLE command would allow the table and database owners to do it.
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Fair point.  However I would still put this in the category of nice
additions, but we really don't *NEED* right now.