On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:28, Tom Lane wrote: > Glen Parker <glenebob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I am still trying to roll my own auto vacuum thingy. > > Um, is this purely for hack value? What is it that you find inadequate > about regular autovacuum? It is configurable through the pg_autovacuum > catalog --- which I'd be the first to agree is a sucky user interface, > but we're not going to set the user interface in concrete until we are > pretty confident it's feature-complete. So: what do you see missing? I'm not sure what the OP had in mind, but the thing which is missing for us is a time window restriction sort of thing. What I mean is to make sure a vacuum will never kick in in the main business hours, but only at night at pre-specified hours, and only if the vacuum threshold was met for the delete/update counts. It would be nice if there could be a flexible time window specification, like specifying only some days, or only weekends, or each night some specific hours... but just one time window would be a big improvement already. Cheers, Csaba.
