Postgres vacuum meetings that people attend willingly

Vacuum work competes with feature work unless you translate it. We start meetings with a single chart: p95 query latency for top ten queries. When vacuum debt rises, the chart moves before engineers argue about priority.

Agenda item two assigns owners to tables, not databases. Ownership clarity prevents circular finger-pointing. Agenda item three sets a calendar entry for re-checking bloat after major releases.

We close with a risk note for leadership—honest language about what remains unaddressed and why. That transparency earns trust for the next funding request.