Re: Autovacuum on by default?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum on by default?
Date: 2006-08-25 15:57:31
Message-ID: 1802.1156521451@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> - Leave base thresholds alone (pending further analysis that might remove them
>> altogether?)

> While there is talk of removing this all together, I think it was also
> agreed that as long as these values are there, they should be reduced.
> I think the defaults in 8.1 are 1000/500, I think 200/100 was suggested.

ISTM that if we don't want to remove the thresholds immediately,
we should make them default to zero for a release or two and see how
well it works.

At the moment I can't find the thread that discussed removing them,
but IIRC there were some good arguments why the thresholds should always
be zero.

regards, tom lane

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