Robert Treat wrote: > Attached patch takes a swing at improving the autovacuum wording in > maintenance.sgml.
Thanks, applied. > On a related note I was thinking to add a note in the runtime config section > for autovacuum_enabled that stats_start_collector and stats_row_level must be > on for enabled to work, would that still go in runtime.sgml ? Yes, that is config.sgml now. Added. > On a related note to that, I am wondering if it might be better to have the > postmaster issue a fatal error on startup if autovacuum is on and stats are > off, rather than the warning it does now. ISTM it is very easy to miss that > warning (since it is only sent to stderr and not stout afaict) and looking in > pg_settings there would be no indication that anything was wrong, other than > autovacuum being set to off (perhaps if it was set to 'error, stats disabled' > or some such it might be better?) I don't think we usually fail on startup unless there is a major problem. When people modify postgresql.conf, they better check the server log file after startup. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
