David Gould wrote:
> I have some thoughts for a different approach. In short, the stats collector
> actually knows what needs vacuuming because queries that create dead tuples
> tell it. I'm considering have the stats collector maintain a queue of
> vacuum work and that autovacuum request work from the stats collector. When I
> have something more concrete I'll post it on hackers.
Hm, ideally we would have something backpatchable, but this new idea
doesn't sound so to me. I think that having some variant of the patch
you proposed previously would be better for the stable branches.
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