Re: autovacuum_work_mem

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: autovacuum_work_mem
Date: 2013-12-11 19:34:35
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSZCqCEeMajbQ3eJgT=7wexhhc6d3LH7bZhNme6sT+4TA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> That's about 2-3 days work and I know Peter can hack it. So the
> situation is not perfection-sought-blocking-good, this is more like
> fairly poor solution being driven through when a better solution is
> available within the time and skills available.

I think that that's a very optimistic assessment of the amount of work
required. Even by the rose-tinted standards of software project time
estimation. A ton of data is required to justify fundamental
infrastructural changes like that.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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