Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Lately I have been thinking about the next steps for the
> pg_autovacuum daemon. I have written up a document that describes
> what I'm planning to do next. Please read the attached and response
> as I would really like some feedback.
I think these configuration issues will become a lot easier if you make
the autovacuum daemon a subprocess of the postmaster (like, say, the
checkpoint process). Then you have access to a host of methods for
storing state, handling configuration, etc.