"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> You are offering what appears to be a "solution". A perfectly valid one
> in fact. Which one is going to get done first? Which one is going to
> provide immediate benefit?
The problem is that your "immediate benefit" is to encourage people
to do direct manual insertions into pg_autovacuum, which is something
that we shouldn't be encouraging, because it's not the correct long-term
solution. Or even short-term --- it seems reasonably likely to me that
something could be done about building a decent API in the 8.4 cycle,
which is the soonest we could entertain a proposal to put defaults on
pg_autovacuum anyway.
regards, tom lane