On 2016-06-03 09:24:28 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> This unstable performance issue, with the minute-long stalls, is the
> worst and most frequent production problem people hit with postgres in
> my experience, besides issues with autovacuum. Ignoring that is just
> hurting our users.
Oh, and a good proportion of the "autovacuum causes my overall systems
to slow down unacceptably" issues come from exactly this.