Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Michael Paesold wrote:
>> Yeah, I thought we had agreed that we must cancel all auto vacuum/analyzes,
>> on the ground that foreground operations are usually more important than
>> maintenance tasks.
> What this means is that autovacuum will be starved a lot of the time,
Not really, because DDL changes aren't *that* common (at least not for
non-temp tables). I think the consensus was that we should cancel
autovac in these cases unless it is an anti-wraparound vacuum. Isn't
that why you were putting in the flag to show it is for wraparound?
regards, tom lane
