BUG #17724: All autovacuum workers operate on 1 db at a time

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Subject: BUG #17724: All autovacuum workers operate on 1 db at a time
Date: 2022-12-16 17:52:29
Message-ID: 17724-37442ada79498fbb@postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 17724
Logged by: Peter Plachta
Email address: pplachta(at)gmail(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: Unsupported/Unknown
Operating system: Windows (Azure)
Description:

Hi all

I have observed this on PG 9.6 and 10 and could not find a bug indicating it
was fixed.

Issue is that autovacuum workers appear bound to a certain DB, even if there
is more urgent (wraparound) work to do elsewhere.

In our case specifically we have multiple DBs, one has a large table that
for various reasons takes a long time (many hours) to vacuum. During this
time other autovacuum workers are idle while our other DBs which do frequent
insert/delete accumulate significant bloat which ends up affecting query
time.

Ideally the idle autovacuum workers would just proceed to the next DB.

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