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The fact that vacuum runs automatically does not stop stuck/slow vacuum and transaction ID wrap-around issues from being a death sentence for a high-write-volume Postgres instance. There are many stories on the internet about this, the Notion one (my employer) is here: https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion





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