Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: 2007-05-14 04:34:29
Message-ID: 1179117269.6047.3.camel@goldbach
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On Sun, 2007-13-05 at 22:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This fact is already documented in at least three places; do we really
> need two more?

I think we need to at least modify the documentation for the autovacuum
GUC parameter, which currently states only that it "controls whether the
server should run the autovacuum launcher daemon" -- this is not
strictly true, and in any case, it isn't the whole story.

> The proposed addition to postgresql.conf seems particularly
> over-the-top

I agree that this information doesn't really belong in postgresql.conf.

-Neil

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