Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2018-08-01 10:24:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> IMO, the action you need to take is enabling autovacuum. We've >> seen many many people go down the path you are taking, and it's >> generally led to no good in the end. Manual vacuuming tends >> to miss stuff, and it cannot react adequately to activity spikes. > But it shouldn't matter here, autovacuum will start regardless, no? Sure, once it decides that emergency anti-wraparound vacuuming is necessary. I really doubt the OP wants that to happen; it's the exact opposite of non-intrusive. regards, tom lane