Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
>> On 10/21/16 8:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> If we are willing to do that then we don't really have to solve the
>>> problem on the backend side. One could expect that autovacuum would
>>> clean things up within a few minutes after a backend failure.
> I am really thinking that we should just do that and call it a day
> then, but document the fact that if one wants to look at the content
> of orphaned tables after a crash he had better turn autovacuum to off
> for the time of the analysis.
Yeah, agreed. This also points up the value of Robert's suggestion
of a "really off" setting.
regards, tom lane