Re: Visibility map and freezing

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Visibility map and freezing
Date: 2009-01-07 08:21:32
Message-ID: 1231316492.9691.31.camel@jdavis
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:34 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age -> autovacuum_freeze_scan_age
> vacuum_freeze_max_age -> vacuum_freeze_scan_age
> vacuum_freeze_min_age -> vacuum_freeze_tuple_age
>
> *_scan_age settings control when the table is fully scanned to freeze
> tuples and advance relfrozenxid, and vacuum_freeze_tuple_age controls
> how old a tuple needs to be to be frozen. One objection is that you can
> read "freeze_scan" to mean that a scan is frozen, like a tuple is
> frozen. Any better ideas?

I see what you mean about the possible misinterpretation, but I think
it's a big improvement, and I don't have a better suggestion.

Thanks,
Jeff Davis

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