Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Decoupling antiwraparound autovacuum from special rules around auto cancellation
Date: 2023-01-19 22:51:18
Message-ID: 20230119225118.sgrxsr2lij7eqqzi@awork3.anarazel.de
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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(at)anarazel(dot)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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