On 25 Sep 2002 at 1:10, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > > It doesn't have to make its way into the postgresql daemon itself -- in > fact since some people like tuning the vacuuming, it makes more sense to > make this a daemon. No, my suggestion is simple that some sort of > auto-vacuumer be compiled as a stand-alone app and included in the standard > postgresql tar.gz file, and the install instructions recommend the site > adding it as a cron job. > > unless I missed something.... the point of a daemon is so that we don't need > to use cron. > > I also think that some type of daemon should be included in the pg sources, > and installed with the rest of the system, and if configured to do so, the > postmaster launches the auto vac daemon. I think this still makes sense > even with the proposed setup (autovac client is just special client app).
I would suggest adding it to pg_ctl. Best place to put it IMO.. I can make available rpm of pgavd but with checkinstall, I guess people will can have more distro. spcecific rpms. One rpm is obviously not going to install on all distros.. Bye Shridhar -- Moore's Constant: Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
