Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:41:35 +0000 (14:41 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:41:49 +0000 (14:41 -0400)
commit4cbecdaaac0617a0a16d40f0d2cc87d1c278e197
tree94fc41f078c8918744b06a6b8475812eb93d85b1
parent05c0059b3573a0423370d98789b5f292fb296041
Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off.

When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers
to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.  But after we'd done
that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the
targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming.
This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the
wraparound threat.  Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we
*only* do forced vacuums and not any other work.

Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov.  This has been like this all along,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c