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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Mar 30, 2005
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Neil Conway
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Document that the "-P" option to pg_autovacuum is insecure on many
platforms, and suggest using ~/.pgpass instead.
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pg_autovacuum requires that the statistics system be enabled and
reporting row level stats. The overhead of the stats system has been
shown to
have a significant cost under certain workloads. For
instance, a tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to
run nearly 30% slower when
stats were enabled. However, in practice,
shown to
be significant under certain workloads. For instance, a
tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to run nearly
30% slower when row-level
stats were enabled. However, in practice,
with more realistic workloads, the stats system overhead is usually
nominal.
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-U username: Username pg_autovacuum will use to connect with, if not
specified the current username is used.
-P password: Password pg_autovacuum will use to connect with. *WARNING*
When installed as a Windows Service, this option will be stored in plain
text in the registry.
This option is insecure. When installed as a Windows Service, this
option will be stored in plain text in the registry. When used with
most Unix variants, other users will be able to see the argument to
the "-P" option via ps(1). The ~/.pgpass file can be used to
specify a password more securely.
-H host: host name or IP to connect to.
-p port: port used for connection.
-h help: list of command line options.
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