Re: postgresql transaction id monitoring with nagios

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql transaction id monitoring with nagios
Date: 2006-05-02 19:12:37
Message-ID: A375C6D5-B7CF-484D-A24A-053462B1FC6D@khera.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance


On May 2, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> 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. (Wow, who wouldn't want a person-wide
> vacuum if
> it did the same thing ...)

and what exactly is "vacuumdb -a -z" doing besides a database wide
vacuum?

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Mark Liberman 2006-05-02 19:28:18 Re: Why is plan (and performance) different on partitioned table?
Previous Message Alvaro Herrera 2006-05-02 19:07:41 Re: postgresql transaction id monitoring with nagios