Re: pg_clog questions

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Benjamin Krajmalnik <kraj(at)illumen(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Subject: Re: pg_clog questions
Date: 2006-05-26 02:20:46
Message-ID: 447665FE.5010905@zeut.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm. I believe that autovac only does database-wide vacuums when it
>> thinks they're necessary to prevent transaction wraparound failures.
>> Which would mean that it'd let pg_clog grow to something on the order
>> of half a gig before any truncation would happen. That's probably
>> insufficiently aggressive :-(
>>
>> Alvaro, Matthew, any thoughts about improving that?

Not really. Alvara mentioned reducing the constant that we test against
for DB wide vacuum. I'm a little concerned that might result is
database-wide vacuums more often than desired, but I don't see a better
answer off the top of my head.

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