Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>,
Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org,
Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> I need some more opinions on whether I should continue working here, or
>> stop and leave it for 8.5.
>
> Bruce and I were just talking yesterday about the need to start closing
> down this commitfest. I'm not sure what the schedule is going to end
> up being; but if you can't see a pretty short path to finishing whatever
> development still needs doing, my advice is to set it aside for 8.5.
I agree in principle. OTOH, the current behavior can almost be defined
as a bug, since we can't restore any changes you make to the autovacuum
configuration. I know it's by design, but it makes it pretty fragile to
use the ability to change the configuration at all...
//Magnus