Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:09:43 -0400,
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
>>>> In the last exciting episode, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian) wrote:
>>>>> o integrated auto-vacuum (Bruce)
>>>
>>>> If this can kick off a vacuum of a Very Large Table at an unfortunate
>>>> time, this can turn out to be a prety painful misfeature.
>>>
>>> [ shrug... ] You'll always be able to turn it off if you don't want it.
>>> I'm not sure that we'll be ready to turn it on by default even in 8.1.
>>
>> Agreed. It will just be there to turn on from postgresql.conf if you
>> want it, and we do have TODO information about keeping such an FSM for
>> recently expired pages.
>
> I think if we aren't finding problems in testing that it would be better
> to turn pg_autovacuum on by default. Vacuum is something the burns new
> users and having it one by default is going to cut down on surprises.

Except for the surprise of peridically having the system go unresponsive
because it hit a large table, and that new user wondering what is wrong
with postgresql that it just stalls seemingly randomly :(

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