Re: Wal -long transaction - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: Wal -long transaction
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Msg-id 441EA496.5050108@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to Re: Wal -long transaction  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Wal -long transaction  ("Ian Harding" <iharding@destinydata.com>)
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Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Well it's worse than that. If you have long-running transactions that would
> cause rollback-segment-overflow in Oracle then the equivalent price in
> Postgres would be table bloat *regardless* of how frequently you vacuum.

Isn't that a bit pessimistic?  In tables which mostly grow (as opposed
to deletes and updates) and where most inserts succeed (instead of
rolling back), I would have expected postgresql not to bloat
tables no matter how long my transactions last.

And it's been a while; but I thought transactions like that could
overflow rollback segments in that other database.

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