Re: How to stop autovacuum silently

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 8:18 AM Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently, one of our customers had reported a not working autovacuum.  After a minor investigation, I've found that
> autovacuum launcher did, actually, run vacuum as expected, but with no results.  At the same time, no warnings or
> other anomies were present in the logs.

Are you aware of commit e83ebfe6d7, which added a similar WARNING at
the point when VACUUM overwrites a relfrozenxid/relminmxid "from the
future"? It's a recent one.

> At first, I've thought may be statistics is broken, thus vacuum is not working as expected.  But in fact, something
> more interesting is had happened.

Was pg_upgrade even run against this database? My guess is that the
underlying problem was caused by the bug fixed by commit 74cf7d46.

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Peter Geoghegan