Re: transaction id wraparound

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Talha Khan <talha(dot)amjad(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: transaction id wraparound
Date: 2006-09-29 00:40:42
Message-ID: 20060929004041.GL34238@nasby.net
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Talha Khan wrote:
> datfrozenxid column of pg_database row is updated at the completion of any
> database wide vacuum operation. The value store here is the cuttoff xid used
> by the vacuum operation all xid's older then this cutoffxid are replaced by
> theis xid so i think the behaviour being shown by your database is quite
> normal.

True, but if age(xid) is showing how many transactions have occured
since xid then his conclusion that he did 500k transactions between
those two snapshots is correct.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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