Re: Autovacuum / full vacuum

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> I'm curious as to why autovacuum is not designed to do full vacuum. 

Because that's terribly invasive due to the locks it takes out.

Lazy vacuum may chew some I/O, but it does *not* block your
application for the duration.

VACUUM FULL blocks the application.  That is NOT something that anyone
wants to throw into the "activity mix" randomly.
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