Re: postgresql transaction id monitoring with nagios

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Vivek Khera wrote:
> >
> > On May 2, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Tony Wasson wrote:
> >
> > >The script detects a wrap at 2 billion. It starts warning once one or
> > >more databases show an age over 1 billion transactions. It reports
> > >critical at 1.5B transactions. I hope everyone out there is vacuuming
> > >*all* databases often.
> >
> > Something seems wrong... I just ran your script against my
> > development database server which is vacuumed daily and it said I was
> > 53% of the way to 2B. Seemed strange to me, so I re-ran "vacuum -a -
> > z" to vacuum all databases (as superuser), reran the script and got
> > the same answer.
>
> That's right, because a database's age is only decremented in
> database-wide vacuums.

Forget it ... I must be blind ...

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