On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> In another thread, Alvaro quoted from the manual:
>> If for some reason autovacuum fails to clear old XIDs from a table, the
>> system will begin to emit warning messages like this when the database's oldest
>> XIDs reach ten million transactions from the wraparound point:
>
>> WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions
>> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in "mydb".
>
>> (A manual VACUUM should fix the problem, as suggested by the hint; but
>> note that the VACUUM must be performed by a superuser, else it will fail to
>> process system catalogs and thus not be able to advance the database's
>> datfrozenxid.)
>
> It occurs to me to wonder how this scenario will interact with the
> recent changes to let VACUUM skip pages. AFAIR there is not a way for a
> manual VACUUM to set the anti-wraparound mode, is there?
I tweaked Simon's original patch to address exactly this scenario;
VACUUM FREEZE prevents page-skipping behavior.
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