pgsql: Fix scaling of autovacuum freeze scores.

From: Nathan Bossart <nathan(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix scaling of autovacuum freeze scores.
Date: 2026-09-01 20:21:03
Message-ID: E1x1Uyc-000000035Ck-1YJB@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix scaling of autovacuum freeze scores.

Sufficiently large settings of the *_freeze_score_weight parameters
can lower the scaling thresholds below the *_freeze_max_age
settings. This can lead the scoring code to raise a value < 1.0 to
a power > 1.0, thus lowering the score, which is the opposite of
what is intended. To fix, only exponentiate the scores when doing
so won't lower their values.

Oversight in commit d7965d65fc.

Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Burd <greg(at)burd(dot)me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/apWcbq91BAfhmsKU%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/49e098b41420aebda60804410b33fcbb5279503f

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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