[Open Item] Re: Autovacuum on by default?

Tom Lane wrote:
> "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.

I can't find it either, but I think the bug reported here is related:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-06/thrd2.php#00951

On the other hand, I don't think we completely resolved this, so I
proposed this be added to the "Open Items" list.

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