Just thinking out loud here, so disregard if you think its chaff but...[snip]
if we had a system table pg_avd_defaults
As long as pg_autovacuum remains a contrib module, I don't think any changes to the system catelogs will be make. If pg_autovacuum is deemed ready to move out of contrib, then we can talk about the above.
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