Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Dave Cramer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com

> > The only possible explanation for this behavior is that somebody is
> > signalling the postmaster due to Xid wraparound issues.  This is keyed
> > on some GUC vars -- Perhaps you have autovacuum_freeze_max_age set to an
> > insane value?
> 
> Doesn't appear to be insane ?
> 
> #autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 200000000  # maximum XID age before forced
> vacuum

Not only sane, but also the default ;-)

What's the max age(pg_database.datfrozenxid)?

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