Re: Autovacuum vs statement_timeout

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>> I'm not excited about the other ones but I can see the argument for
>>> making pg_dump force the timeout to 0.
>> Allowing pg_dump to run un-checked could also lead to problems such as 
>> exceeding maintenence windows causing performance issues, or causing trouble 
>> due to lock contention with ongoing pg_dumps.

If you have that problem, you need bigger hardware. pg_dump is a 
priority application. Not to mention, if you *really* want that time of 
behavior it is easy enough to wrap pg_dump in perl or python.

Let the foot guns be available to those that can script them :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake





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