Re: pg_autovacuum should allow NULL values

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:08:45PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Mark Stosberg wrote:
> >>> I just tried to add something to the pg_autovacuum table for the first
> >>> time today (with 8.1). I wanted to make the simplest possible entry:
> >>> Disable auto-vacuuming for a table. However, the data model requires
> >>> that I also enter values for:
> >>>
> >>> vac_base_thresh
> >> You can use any negative value on these settings (-1 works fine, for
> >> example).
> >
> > We should really make that the default so that you don't have to worry
> > about other fields...
>
> A default would be helpful, but I think "NULL" is a lot more intuitive
> as a placeholder "don't know/ don't care", than "-1" is.
>
> Adding a default of -1 seems like a more cumbersome way to express the
> same thing to me.

To be frank, I don't remember what the rationale was for not using
NULLs. Simplicity of code, I guess.

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