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To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: another autovacuum scheduling thread
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:59:05 -0500
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 12:08:52PM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
> > The main issue is that the scores can reach quadrillions, or even
> billions,
> > which feels excessive, especially if exposed in DEBUG3 or in a future
> > prioritization view.
>
> But why is that an issue? Because the number looks big when there's
> extremely verbose logging enabled? I'm not following your objection.
Yes, purely the looks of such an excessively large number could look wrong
to a user.
Putting on my user hat, I would be confused and honestly think this is a
bug in the
calculation. If we weren’t exposing the numbers, I would not care.
But, this could just be me.
This comment "this component increases greatly once the age surpasses" is
perhaps
good enough.
we _want_ the score to be excessively high in these cases so that there's
> basically zero chance a table with unreasonable bloat takes priority. This
> was discussed a bit upthread [0].
>
> [0]
> https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqrd%3DSHVUytdRj55OWnLH98Rvtzqam5zq2f4XKRZa7t9Q%40mail.gmail.com
>
Yes, I definitely agree with this.
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Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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