Re: No vacuum for insert-only database? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Craig A. James
Subject Re: No vacuum for insert-only database?
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Msg-id 4415A9A4.5020903@modgraph-usa.com
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In response to Re: No vacuum for insert-only database?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: No vacuum for insert-only database?
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>If I only insert data into a table, never update or delete, then I should
>>never have to vacuum it.  Is that correct?
>
> You still need to vacuum eventually, to avoid transaction Id wraparound
> issues.  But not as often.

Thanks.  Any suggestions for what "not as often" means?  For example, if my database will never contain more than 10
millionrows, is that a problem?  100 million rows?  When does transaction ID wraparound become a problem? 

Craig

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