Re: Disable autovacuum guc?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disable autovacuum guc?
Date: 2016-10-20 16:05:00
Message-ID: 9e322825-54b2-bbe1-e0fa-a0d44255d392@commandprompt.com
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On 10/20/2016 08:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 06:34 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 10/19/2016 07:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> On 10/19/2016 06:27 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>> Hrm, true although that is by far a minority of our users. What if we
>> made it so we disabled the autovacuum guc but made it so you could
>> disable autovacuum per database (ALTER DATABASE SET or something such
>> thing?).
>
> Well, that wouldn't fix the problem; people would just disable it per
> database, even if it was a bad idea.

I doubt this very much. It requires a different level of sophistication.

General users (not you, not me, and certainly not Haas or Lane) don't
run anything but an application backed to an ORM. They understand a conf
file but they aren't going to touch anything they consider
"underneath".

Sincerely,

JD

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