Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? ) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? )
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Msg-id 1250204468.24981.94.camel@monkey-cat.sm.truviso.com
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In response to Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? )  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? )  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 18:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, making the limit "slushy" would doubtless save some writes, with
> not a lot of downside.

OK, then should we make this a TODO? I'll make an attempt at this.

> > And people who don't care about forensic evidence can set it to 0-100M.
> 
> Everybody *thinks* they don't care about forensic evidence.  Until they
> need it.

We already allow setting vacuum_freeze_min_age to zero, so I don't see a
solution here other than documentation.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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