Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum loose ends
Date: 2005-08-10 03:24:40
Message-ID: 21937.1123644280@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Hmm. I have a patch for this, but now that it's ready, I wonder if it's
> really needed. If I understand vacuum_set_xid_limits() correctly, it's
> very difficult for the vacuumxid to be far behind the freeze limit.

Umm ... they can be close together, or a billion XIDs apart, depending
on whether the FREEZE option was used.

regards, tom lane

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