Andrew Hammond escribió: > That's a good question. I can't see any reason for a naptime longer > than 60 seconds either. > > I think very large naptime settings are a symptom of another issue: > what's the Right Way to defer vacuums until "off hours"? Is that even > a desirable thing anymore? I don't think it is in the majority of > cases. > > I originally thought that this was more of a Best Practices issue (ie, > fix in the docs, not the code), but now I'm wondering if there's much > call for supporting the idea of being more aggressive with vacuums at > different times of the day / week / month. Anyone?
That's why the intention is to have the autovacuum scheduling feature be a mechanism for changing the autovac parameters according to date and time. We even have a Google Summer of Code project about that. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J "La virtud es el justo medio entre dos defectos" (Aristóteles) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
