On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:53, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > > One additional thing, some of this might be possible if pg_autovacuum > > saved its data between restarts. Right now it restarts with no memory > > of what happened before. > > Well, the unmaintened gborg version adopted approach of storing such info. in a > table, so that it survives postgresql/pg_atuvacuum restart or both. > > That was considered a tablespace pollution back then. But personally I think, it > should be ok. If ever it goes to catalogues, I would rather add few columns to > pg_class for such a stat. But again, thats not my call to make.
I still consider it tablespace pollution, when / if it gets integrated into the backend, and it uses system tables that is a different story, you are not modifying a users database. What should happen is that on exit pg_autovacuum writes it's data to a file that it rereads on startup, or something like that.... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html