Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> In any case, this would still only fix things for pg_restore, and I
> remain concerned that people will gripe about autovacuum blocking
> locks.  The idea of kicking autovac off tables remains probably more
> interesting in the long run.

Yes, sounds good.

I'd also like to see vacuum_delay_point() do a test against
CountActiveBackends() to see if anything else is running. If there all
non-autovac processes are idle or waiting, then we should skip the delay
point, this time only. That way a VACUUM can go at full speed on an idle
system and slow down when people get active again. It will also help
when people issue a DDL statement against a table that is currently
being vacuumed. I've got a patch worked out to do this.

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