Joseph S wrote:
> I'm running 8.2.6. I have a log table that is always INSERTed to, and
> no updates or deletes are ever run on. For some reason the autovacuum
> decided it needed to vacuum this table, and it is slowing down my
> production server.
Perhaps it's because the table is close to Xid wraparound. Please see
select age(relfrozenxid) from pg_class where oid = 'your-table'::regclass;
If the age exceeds max freeze age, then this is the cause. (The
freeze max age can come from the freeze_max_age param, or
autovacuum_freeze_max_age, or pg_autovacuum.freeze_max_age).
Hmm, maybe it's called max_freeze_age, I don't recall offhand.
Beware of the pg_autovacuum column being zero.
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