[ oh, I forgot to respond to this: ]
"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> Isn't there a special lock acquired on a relation by vacuum? Can't we
> just check for that?
I think you're thinking that ConditionalLockRelation solves the problem,
but it does not, because it will fail if someone has taken a (quasi)
exclusive lock unrelated to vacuuming. You don't want an application
that frequently takes short-term ExclusiveLocks on a table to thereby
cause autovacuum to frequently skip that table.
regards, tom lane
