Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mikko Partio
Subject Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
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Msg-id 2ca799770708311131r5ae5e3eera66a7cea1fc5917d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
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On 8/31/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
Pallav Kalva wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:

>> Probably represents freezing of old tuples, which is a WAL-logged
>> operation as of 8.2.  Is it likely that the data is 200M transactions
>> old?
>>
> If nothing changed on these tables how can it freeze old tuples ?
> Does it mean that once it reaches 200M transactions it will do the same
> thing all over again ?

No -- once tuples are frozen, they don't need freezing again (unless
they are modified by UPDATE or DELETE).



Off-topic question: the documentation says that XID numbers are 32 bit. Could the XID be 64 bit when running on a 64 bit platform? That would effectively prevent wrap-around issues.

Regards

MP

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