Absolutely, I have been looking into this and I have some thoughts, but right now all I was trying to do was some rough implementations just to help me make sure I understand all / most of the issues. I am very new to hacking on the guts of the backend.
I plan on posting a formal proposal when I feel more confident as to what I'm talking about. On Friday 16 August 2002 10:10 am, Jan Wieck wrote: > "Matthew T. O'Connor" wrote: > > Hello, I'm playing with creating an auto vacuum daemon, but it is my > > first time inside the pg source code and I'm a bit lost. > > > > I have gotten as far as having a vacuum daemon created on postmaster > > startup. It's just a fork from the postmaster, cribbed mostly from the > > stat collector code. > > I recall that there has been discussion and so far the conclusion that > an automatic vacuum daemon is not the solution everyone needs. If you > really want to spend the effort on doing this, can we please see some > proposal about possible configuration options, how the daemon decides > what to vacuum when and the like? > > > Jan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])