Re: BUG #13750: Autovacuum slows down with large numbers of tables. More workers makes it slower.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Of course, if we could avoid the pgstat check completely that would be
> even better.  The amount of pgstat traffic that causes is ridiculous.

Good point ... shouldn't we have already checked the stats before ever
deciding to try to claim the table?

            regards, tom lane