On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 08:43 +0000, James Pang (chaolpan) wrote: > It’s Postgres 13 version, we plan to migrate from Oracle to Postgres 13 on RHEL8. > One maintain job is about autovacuum, with default config, autovacuum will do on > tables with “vacuum_index_cleanup” and “vacuum_truncate” option? > With both options, autovacuum woker will hold “access exclusive” lock when truncate > empty blocks and cleanup index ? if that’s true, how to handle autovacuum to reduce > the lock blocking issue? Cleaning up the index will not take any locks that block data modifications. The ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock for truncation is only held for a very short time and won't bother you (unless perhaps, you could get replication conflicts on a standby server). Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
