On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM Aaron Pelz <aaronepelz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To me it looks like a *single* corrupt index held up autovacuums across our entire server, even other in other databases on the same server. Am I interpreting this correctly? Yes -- that is correct. What PostgreSQL version are you on? Was this an INCLUDE index on PostgreSQL 11? > Would love guidance on diagnosing this type of thing and strategies for preventing it. It's possible that amcheck would have given you an accurate diagnosis of the problem -- especially if you used bt_index_parent_check(): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/amcheck.html -- Peter Geoghegan