Re: Do we reduce autovacuum_naptime max values

> On 9 Sep 2026, at 11:49, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I’ve heard through various channels that `autovacuum_naptime` was mistakenly
> set to 23 hours, resulting in an XID wraparound incident. Maybe the max value
> of more than 1 hour is too large ,so can we reduce the max value to 3600? Of
> course, an inappropriate XID request is also a contributing factor to the
> incident.We believe a reasonable range should be set for this maximum value.

The current range 1..INT_MAX/1000 is indeed pretty wide, but I think it's hard,
or even impossible, to conclude that no one would ever want more than X. Could
the documentation be improved perhaps?

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Daniel Gustafsson