Re: another autovacuum scheduling thread

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)upgrade(dot)com>, Greg Burd <greg(at)burd(dot)me>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: another autovacuum scheduling thread
Date: 2026-08-31 15:49:08
Message-ID: CALj2ACVVc+k2-qyCMJ2OJ464vrkxYX=_U0Zsv9LYPJrwgmsTOQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 8:23 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Claude noticed a corner case that needs handling. In short, if the freeze
> score weights are high enough, the pow() calls can have the opposite of the
> intended effect, since the freeze scores may be less than 1. Patch
> attached.

Nice catch! Yes, it seems like an obvious issue and the fix looks good to me.

Can we add some tests for HEAD for the autovacuum scoring feature? I
understand it's a bit hard to get the tests to run deterministically,
but if it's worth it, I can give it a try.

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Bharath Rupireddy
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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