Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Could autovacuum emit log messages as soon as it sees such tables and start
> > dropping them at some point later?
>
> We might have to rearrange the logic a bit to make that happen (I'm not
> sure what order things get tested in), but a log message does seem like
> a good idea. I'd go for logging anytime an orphaned table is seen,
> and dropping once it's past the anti-wraparound horizon.
I don't think this requires much of a rearrangement -- see autovacuum.c
1921ff.
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