Why do we let autovacuum give up? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Why do we let autovacuum give up?
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Msg-id 52E17CD4.2060102@commandprompt.com
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Responses Re: Why do we let autovacuum give up?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hello,

I have run into yet again another situation where there was an 
assumption that autovacuum was keeping up and it wasn't. It was caused 
by autovacuum quitting because another process requested a lock.

In turn we received a ton of bloat on pg_attribute which caused all 
kinds of other issues (as can be expected).

The more I run into it, the more it seems like autovacuum should behave 
like vacuum, in that it gets precedence when it is running. First come, 
first serve as they say.

Thoughts?

JD
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