Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who said anything about external schedulers? I remind you that this is > AUTOvacuum. If you want to implement manual scheduling you can still > use plain 'ol vacuum commands.
I think we can split autovacuum into two (or more?) functions: task gatherers and task workers. We don't have to bother with the monolithic style of current autovacuum. Galy said: > The task queue might be filled by dedicated task-gathering-worker or it > might be filled by *external task gatherer*. Alvaro said: > The idea of an external task gatherer is an interesting one which I > think would make sense to implement in the future. I think it is not > very difficult to implement once the proposal we're currently discussing > is done I said: > Though we can use a completely separated autovacuum daemon like as > contrib/pg_autovacuum of 8.0, but I think it is good for us to share > some of the codes between a built-in scheduler and external ones. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate