Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation
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Msg-id 20230119225118.sgrxsr2lij7eqqzi@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2023-01-19 13:36:41 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:58 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > There's absolutely no guarantee that autoanalyze is triggered
> > there. Particularly with repeated vacuums triggered due to an relfrozenxid age
> > that can't be advanced that very well might not happen within days on a large
> > relation.
> 
> Arguments like that work far better as arguments in favor of the
> vac_estimate_reltuples heuristics.

I don't agree. But mainly my issue is that the devil you know (how this has
worked for a while) is preferrable to introducing an unknown quantity (your
patch that hasn't yet seen real world exposure).

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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