Re: autovacuum not prioritising for-wraparound tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum not prioritising for-wraparound tables
Date: 2013-01-25 17:52:46
Message-ID: 15009.1359136366@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> I think if we backpatch this we should only prefer wraparound tables and
> leave the rest unchanged.

That's not a realistic option, at least not with anything that uses this
approach to sorting the tables. You'd have to assume that qsort() is
stable which it probably isn't.

> I don't think the argument that the pg_class order might work better
> than anything holds that much truth - its not like thats something
> really stable.

I find that less than credible as well.

regards, tom lane

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