Re: pgavd status

bmetcalf(at)nortel(dot)com ("Brandon Metcalf") writes:
> I've been looking at the auto vacuum daemon pgavd and it looks like
> there hasn't been any development activity in a while. Does anyone
> know that status of pgavd?

The pgavd "tarball" has not been touched since September 2002.

http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/pub/postgresql/projects/gborg/pgavd/devel/
pgavd.0.1.tar.gz 23-Sep-2002 15:31 343K

> Also, I'd be interested in hearing how well it works and if there
> are any plans to include this daemon in the pgsql distribution.

If there hasn't been a release in nearly three years, that might
suggest that it's a tad out of date. I haven't attempted a compile in
a couple of years, and I didn't have much success when I did try to do
so.

There is a somewhat analagous "pg_autovacuum" daemon that has been in
the contrib section of PostgreSQL since 7.4. It was not based on
pgavd.

There are plans to "put that down" in favor of an in-the-engine
autovacuumer, possibly in 8.1.
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