Re: recovery from xid wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: recovery from xid wraparound
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Msg-id 8303.1161698903@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: recovery from xid wraparound  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> A VACUUM will recover any data that slipped beyond the horizon less
> than 1 billion transactions ago, which I think covers you completely.
> The only issue is that unique indexes may be confused because new
> conflicting data may have been inserted while the old data was
> invisible. Only you can say if that's going to be an issue.

I don't think there's a risk there.  Uniqueness checks use SnapshotDirty
so they aren't time-sensitive.

            regards, tom lane

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