Does cancelling autovacuum make you lose all the work it did? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Greg Rychlewski (LCL)
Subject Does cancelling autovacuum make you lose all the work it did?
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Responses RE: Does cancelling autovacuum make you lose all the work it did?  (Stephen Froehlich <s.froehlich@cablelabs.com>)
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I have a long running autovacuum (to prevent wraparound) that has been doing on for 6 days. I’m considering changing the autovacuum settings to be more aggressive, cancelling the current one, and then let it restart. Would the tuples its cleaned be lost if I did this?

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