Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?
Date: 2010-08-24 13:32:37
Message-ID: 201008241332.o7ODWbC19866@momjian.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > OK, I have attached a proposed patch to improve this. I moved the
> > > pg_clog mention to a new paragraph and linked it to the reason the
> > > default is relatively low.
> >
> > The references to "vacuum freeze" are incorrect; autovacuum does NOT
> > do the equivalent of VACUUM FREEZE. Please stop playing around with
> > the perfectly good existing wording.
>
> Uh, so VACUUM FREEZE unconditionally freezes all rows, while vacuum just
> freezes rows who's xid is older than vacuum_freeze_min_age? I saw that
> in our current docs in reference to VACUUM FREEZE:
>
> Selects aggressive "freezing" of tuples. Specifying FREEZE is
> equivalent to performing VACUUM with the vacuum_freeze_min_age
> parameter set to zero. The FREEZE option is deprecated and
> will be removed in a future release; set the parameter instead.
>
> Updated patch attached.
>
> --
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>
> + It's impossible for everything to be true. +

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