Re: maintenance_work_mem and autovacuum

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: maintenance_work_mem and autovacuum
Date: 2009-03-26 23:19:10
Message-ID: 49CC0D6E.2030407@agliodbs.com
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On 3/26/09 4:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs<simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> That said, it would be unnecessary if I could use ROLES to set
>>> parameters more reliably ....
>
>> Hmmm, perhaps the right way to do this is to have a user called
>> "autovacuum" that is used to perform autovacuums.
>
> Interesting idea, but maybe we should wait on it until we see what
> (if any) changes we are going to put into the relationship between
> roles and parameters. Josh seems not to be happy with that ...

Well, it would work at present for this, because it's a login role,
presumably.

--Josh

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