Excerpts from Tom Lanyon's message of mié abr 18 12:44:11 -0300 2012:
> Hi all,
> 
> To satisfy my own curiosity, I was trying to find where 8.4 kicks into a 
> backwards scan of the data file during (auto-)vacuuming.
> 
> This appears to be repair_frag() in backend/commands/vacuum.c, but only 
> appears to be called by a FULL vacuum.  Autovacuum, however, appears to 
> explicitly only ever call a not-FULL vacuum, so I'm trying to see where and 
> how it would be possible for autovacuum to trigger this operation.  Any 
> pointers?

See lazy_truncate_heap in vacuumlazy.c.

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