HOT and autovacuum

Hi,

I'm seeing a 8.3 database whose autovacuum-initiated vacuums are being
cancelled and I am not sure of the cause.  I am wondering if a HOT
cleanup round on a page could try to acquire locks on it that would
conflict with autovacuum (basically anything that conflicts with a
vacuum lock).  This would cause autovacuum to commit hara-kiri.

If the table is frequently updated and HOT is invoked often, this could
be very frequent.  The auto-cancel feature of autovacuum is IMHO, in
this case, not welcome.  Perhaps we could teach autovac to not cancel
itself if the other locker is a HOT page prune?

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