"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> The main attractions of this idea are avoiding the corrupt-index issue and
> not doing vacuuming work that's 99.99% sure to be useless.
It does seem strange to me to vacuum a table you're pretty sure is useless
*and* quite likely corrupt.
Could autovacuum emit log messages as soon as it sees such tables and start
dropping them at some point later?
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