Simon Riggs wrote: > Perhaps we should focus on the issues that might result, so that we > address those before we spend time on the details of the user interface. > Can we deadlock or hang from running multiple autovacuums? If you were to run multiple autovacuum processes the way they are today, maybe. But that's not my intention -- the launcher would be the only one to read the catalogs; the workers would be started only to do a single VACUUM job. This reduces the risk of this kind of problems. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
