On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> It seems like we'll want to do it somehow. Perhaps the cleanest way is > >> to incorporate toast-table settings in the reloptions of the parent > >> table. Otherwise dump/reload is gonna be a mess. > > > My question is whether there is interest in actually having support for > > this, or should we just inherit the settings from the main table. My > > gut feeling is that this may be needed in some cases, but perhaps I'm > > overengineering the thing. > > It seems reasonable to inherit the parent's settings by default, in any > case. So you could do that now and then extend the feature later if > there's real demand. Yeh, I can't really see a reason why you'd want to treat toast tables differently with regard to autovacuuming. It's one more setting to get wrong, so no thanks. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
