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Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway 8962b6106b Document that the "-P" option to pg_autovacuum is insecure on many
platforms, and suggest using ~/.pgpass instead.
2005-03-30 05:05:01 +00:00
Neil Conway 810de88d35 Fix typo. 2005-01-24 00:17:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9269699b9d > > 8.0beta3 has pg_autovacuum included, when I want to run this as a
> > Windows service, it says you can use the -I and -R options.
> >
> > When I do that and I specify a password with '-P'
> (uppercase) then in
> > the registry it's saved as '-p' (lowercase) in the
> service-commandline
> > (ImagePath).

This was fixed in v1.21 of pg_autovacuum.c, That rev is tagged for
beta3, so you should not be seeing this issue unless you actually have
an older version for some reason.

http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_autovacuum/p
g_autovacuum.c.diff?r1=1.20;r2=1.21;f=h

> > Also it removes the quotes I added and I'm not so sure it
> would work
> > the way it's supposed to, without it.

It's not so much that it strips them (that happens automagically), more
that it doesn't re-add them when it writes the command line in the
registry. The attached patch fixes that by simply quoting all options
that may need it.
> > If you add DependOnService (a REG_MULTI_SZ an
> array-like-thingie) and
> > have the name (in this case: pgsql-8.0-beta2-dev3) of a service it
> > depends on, it will not fail to start (it will not even try, as
> > PostgreSQL is not running), when PostgreSQL already failed.
> >
> > Maybe it's an idea to specify it on the commandline (what
> service to
> > depend on).

A -E <service> option is added in the attached patch.

Dave Page
2004-12-02 22:48:10 +00:00
Tom Lane c87ddbafe4 Rename vacuum_cost_limit switch from -N to -l to avoid conflict with
existing Windows-only switch.
2004-11-17 21:30:36 +00:00
Tom Lane c47fc6d050 Add options to pg_autovacuum to support setting the cost-based-vacuum
parameters differently from their default values.  Matthew T. O'Connor
2004-11-17 16:54:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 92244e8e54 Fix some minor issues with the new Win32 service code for autovacuum,
and add documentation.  Dave Page
2004-09-14 04:06:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ad590541d The attached patch for contrib/pg_autovacuum/README.pg_autovacuum fixes
one apparent error and makes a minor stylistic change that makes it more
consistent and makes clear something that confused me :-)

Andrew Dunstan
2004-04-19 21:30:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6479ee28c0 Fix typo on autovacuum readme. 2003-11-09 03:15:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 62fdc3dd60 I have run pg_autovacuum on AIX, so that can, at least loosely, be
considered "tested."

And I have turned all of the 7.4 HISTORY material into DocBook for
release.sgml

Christopher Browne
2003-10-16 03:47:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7ceadb8fab Change some awkward wording in the pg_autovacuum README file. I really
only read this because of Niel :-)

Robert Treat
2003-10-08 18:18:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3bf080daaf > OK, well as we wait on the fix for the stats system, let me submit my
> patch for pg_autovacuum.  This patch assumes that the stats system will
> be fixed so that all inserts, updates and deletes performed on shared
> tables reguardless of what database those commands were executed from,
> will show up in the stats shown in each database.

I had to make a further change to this to take quotes off the 'last
ANALYZE' in order for it to not overquote the relation name, so
there's a _little_ work left to get it to play well.

I have deployed it onto several boxes that should be doing some
vacuuming over the weekend, and it is now certainly hitting pg_
tables.

I would like to present a CVS-oriented patch; unfortunately, I had to
change the indentation patterns when editing some of it :-(.  The
following _may_ be good; not sure...

Matthew T. O'Connor
Christopher Browne
2003-09-13 16:26:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9243664dd4 This patch updates pg_autovacuum in several ways:
* A few bug fixes
* fixes solaris compile and crash issue
* decouple vacuum analyze and analyze thresholds
* detach from tty (dameonize)
* improved logging layout
* more conservative default configuration
* improved, expanded and updated README

please apply and 1st convenience, or before code freeze which ever comes
first :-)

At this point I think I have brought pg_autovacuum and its client side
design as far as I think it should go.  It works, keeping file sizes in
check, helps performance and give the administrator a fair amount
flexibility in configuring it.

Next up is to do the FSM based design that is integrated into the back
end.

p.s. Thanks to Christopher Browne for his help.

Matthew T. O'Connor
2003-06-12 01:36:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cb1672e9f8 Rename README in autovacuum code to match Makefile. 2003-03-23 20:16:06 +00:00