On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:36:01AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > I seem to remember that we'd agreed that autovacuum should ignore any
> > globally set statement_timeout, on the grounds that a poorly chosen
> > setting could indefinitely prevent large tables from being vacuumed.
>
> On a vaguely related matter, should programs such as pg_dump, vacuumdb,
> and reindexdb disable statement_timeout?

Youch... yes, they should IMO. Add clusterdb, pg_dumpall and pg_restore
to that list as well (really, pg_dump(all) should output a command to
disable statement_timeout).
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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