Re: Autovacuum in the backend

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Thomas F(dot) O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>, Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Phil Endecott <spam_from_postgresql_general(at)chezphil(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum in the backend
Date: 2005-06-15 20:21:30
Message-ID: 200506152021.j5FKLUE05388@candle.pha.pa.us
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Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I don't think the current implementation if VACUUM can support that. I
> believe that all the work will get rolled back if gets canceled.
>
> Perhaps a decent solution would be to have autovacuum increase the
> vacuum delay settings dynamically based on system load average. That
> way if a vacuum starts and the system starts to get busy, the autoavcuum
> daemon can increase the vacuum delay settings and VACUUM would honor
> this while running.

I would like to have the GUC variables be honored while the system is
running, and that would all administrators to make changes from scripts.

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