Hi Jeff, Yes I am turning off autovacuum for experimental purpose only. I was curious to know what is causing the queries to be killed when the autovacuum is not running. I guess it had to be the pruning of HOT update chains like you have mentioned. Also I have already tried changing the parameters hot_standby_feedback and vacuum_defer_cleanup_age, it works fine, but if HOT update is the problem then changing these setting will hinder it right? If so then is it safe to use these parameters? Or will there be any notable problems or performance issues? This pruning of HOT update could be the case for update only or delete queries too? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Update-or-Delete-causes-canceling-of-long-running-slave-queries-tp5903250p5903344.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general