On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> > In the past, we've had situations where "everything is hung" turned out
>> > to be because of a script that ran manual VACUUM that was holding some
>> > lock. It's admittedly not a huge problem, but it might be useful if a
>> > manual VACUUM could be cancelled the way autovacuum can be.
>>
>> I think the real answer to that is "stop using manual VACUUM".
>
> As much as I'm a fan of autovacuum, that's not always possible.
Or even recommended, unless the docs changed radically in the last
couple of weeks.