Re: Autovacuum and OldestXmin

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and OldestXmin
Date: 2007-11-22 18:51:58
Message-ID: 1195757518.4246.255.camel@ebony.site
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On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:20 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I notice that slony records the oldestxmin that was running when it last
> > ran a VACUUM on its tables. This allows slony to avoid running a VACUUM
> > when it would be clearly pointless to do so.
> >
> > AFAICS autovacuum does not do this, or did I miss that?
>
> Hmm, I think it's just because nobody suggested it and I didn't came up
> with the idea.

OK, well, me neither :-(

...and I never thought to look at slony before now.

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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