Re: Some thoughts about i/o priorities and throttling vacuum - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Some thoughts about i/o priorities and throttling vacuum
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Msg-id 23321.1066406390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Some thoughts about i/o priorities and throttling vacuum  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> The trick to keep in mind is that the XID comparison functions use
> "modulo" operations, _but_ there are special "frozen" XIDs that are
> always "committed" -- that's why a VACUUM FREEZE would relieve the table
> forever from this problem.

> (At least this is how I understand it -- I could be totally wrong here)

No, that's exactly correct.
        regards, tom lane


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