Re: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m?

From: Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m?
Date: 2009-08-12 06:48:45
Message-ID: h5tp40$5u4$1@news.eternal-september.org
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Tom Lane schrieb:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> I've just been tweaking some autovac settings for a large database, and
>> came to wonder: why does vacuum_max_freeze_age default to such a high
>> number? What's the logic behind that?
>
> (1) not destroying potentially useful forensic evidence too soon;
> (2) there's not really much to be gained by reducing it.

If there is not really much to gain by changing the value, why do not
remove the parameter?

Greetings from germany,
Torsten

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