Re: Simple thing to make pg_autovacuum more useful

On Thursday 17 January 2008 19:17:00 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:43:46 -0300
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > > All this thread is a waste of time. We've previously agreed that
> > > > we're going to store autovacuum per-table settings in
> > > > pg_class.reloptions.
> > >
> > > I had forgotten that discussion. So the plan is for the
> > > pg_autovacuum catalog to go away entirely, correct?
> >
> > Yup.
>
> Wait .reloptions is a column... how are we going to populate it and
> array?

ALTER TABLE foo SET autovacuum to true;
ALTER TABLE foo SET autovacuum_naptime to '1min';

(or there about)

I suppose we could also have pg_autovacuum become a view, with rules to manage
relopts.

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake

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