Re: Integrated autovacuum

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:35:31PM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
> El Mié 27 Jul 2005 18:23, Alvaro Herrera escribió:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:05:26PM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
> > >
> > > Will there be a way to ballance the amount of stats the autovacuum gets?
> > > Something like the analyze parameters that the contrib version has, but
> > > integrated in postgresql.conf?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand your question. If it means what I think, then
> > yes, you can set the threshold and scale values per table.
>
> Yes, that's what I was asking. Will those values be in flat files or in the
> cataloge?[1] For what I see, it looks like flat files (presumably
> postgresql.conf)

You set cluster-wide values in postgresql.conf, and table-specific
values in the pg_autovacuum table.

Additionally you can disable autovacuum on a per-table basis.

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