Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly
Date
Msg-id 20150209191035.GG3391@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly  (bkrug <bkrug@usatech.com>)
Responses Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly
List pgsql-performance
bkrug wrote:
> The problem I'm facing is that I have many large (several GB) tables that are
> not being changed (they are several days old) but auto-vacuum keeps scanning
> and updating them every time the xid wraps around and thus my rsync back-up
> process sees that the disk files have changed and must copy them.

We have considered changing this, but it needs a concerted effort.  It's
not a simple problem.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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