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| On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 16:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I agree with Tom. I don't think the current behavior is a major issue > for users for it to be mentioned more than it already is Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't modify config.sgml to note that "autovacuum = off" does not actually imply that "the autovacuum daemon is disabled"? ISTM that plainly violates the principle of least surprise -- it is almost the definition of what an entry in config.sgml *should* include. > though if you want to move one of those, we can do that. So the change would be okay if we also removed one of the other mentions in an unrelated section of the manual? I don't see the logic. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster |
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| Neil Conway wrote: > On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 16:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I agree with Tom. I don't think the current behavior is a major issue > > for users for it to be mentioned more than it already is > > Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't modify config.sgml to note > that "autovacuum = off" does not actually imply that "the autovacuum > daemon is disabled"? ISTM that plainly violates the principle of least > surprise -- it is almost the definition of what an entry in config.sgml > *should* include. I agree, the note should be added there (but it should be a short one and refer the reader someplace else for more complete details). Was there a doc patch proposed already? I seem to have missed it. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org |
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| On Tue, 2007-15-05 at 09:07 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I agree, the note should be added there (but it should be a short one > and refer the reader someplace else for more complete details). I've applied the attached patch to HEAD and REL8_2_STABLE. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend |
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