Re: solving wraparound

From: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Lic(dot) Martin Marques" <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: solving wraparound
Date: 2005-12-27 13:51:12
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0512270551q13f92b04x17e7acb3dce936a8@mail.gmail.com
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On 12/27/05, Lic. Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > This might be a good time to press your buddy to move to 8.1 ;-)
> > PG 8.1 contains logic that should positively prevent a wraparound, by
> > shutting down the server if wraparound gets too close.
>

that was my advice :)

> But if VACUUM fixes the wraparound issue, shouldn't even a badly
> configured autovacuum make the wraparound not be a problem in 8.1? Or did
> I miss understand how this works?
>

but you can disable autovacuum (i do not why you can do something like
that but i guess someone will have a good reason)... actually it comes
off by default in all distros i have seen but windows...

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regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)

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