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To: Sami Imseih <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: another autovacuum scheduling thread
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:28:20 -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. IMHO
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
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