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Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker

Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>

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From: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-03T15:57:03Z
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On 12/03/2012 04:44 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> Is there anything to be gained *now* from merging those two concepts?
>> I saw that as refactoring that can occur once we are happy it should
>> take place, but isn't necessary.
> 
> IMO it's a net loss in robustness of the autovac implementation.

Agreed.

That's only one aspect of it, though. From the other point of view, it
would be a proof of stability for the bgworker implementation if
autovacuum worked on top of it.

Regards

Markus Wanner