Re: autovacuum not prioritising for-wraparound tables

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum not prioritising for-wraparound tables
Date: 2013-01-27 21:29:56
Message-ID: CA+U5nMLevS41xk=xpF=-ZtcZTt0=uLwhe_W50-FtXFLaavm0jw@mail.gmail.com
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On 27 January 2013 17:11, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 25 January 2013 17:19, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> We
>>> could easily run across a system where pg_class order happens to be
>>> better than anything else we come up with.
>>
>> I think you should read that back to yourself and see if you still
>> feel the word "easily" applies here.
>
> I absolutely do.

> You will not convince me that whacking around the
> behavior of autovacuum in a maintenance release is a remotely sane
> thing to do.

This is a different argument. It would be better to say this than to
come up with implausible problems as a way of rejecting something.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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