
This reverts commit 2aa6e33, that added a fast path to skip anti-wraparound and non-aggressive autovacuum jobs (these have no sense as anti-wraparound implies aggressive). With a cluster using a high amount of relations with a portion of them being heavily updated, this could cause autovacuum to lock down, with autovacuum workers attempting repeatedly those jobs on the same relations for the same database, that just kept being skipped. This lock down can be solved with a manual VACUUM FREEZE. Justin King has reported one environment where the issue happened, and Julien Rouhaud and I have been able to reproduce it in a second environment. With a very aggressive autovacuum_freeze_max_age, triggering those jobs with pgbench is a matter of minutes, and hitting the lock down is a lot harder (my local tests failed to do that). Note that anti-wraparound and non-aggressive jobs can only be triggered on a subset of shared catalogs: - pg_auth_members - pg_authid - pg_database - pg_replication_origin - pg_shseclabel - pg_subscription - pg_tablespace While the lock down was possible down to v12, the root cause of those jobs is a much older issue, which needs more analysis. Bonus thanks to Andres Freund for the discussion. Reported-by: Justin King Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE39h22zPLrkH17GrkDgAYL3kbjvySYD1io+rtnAUFnaJJVS4g@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12
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