Re: Freezing without write I/O - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Freezing without write I/O
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZZzaOHHCxTQ+_WEN1DDQqJY+SD2=73RZvF7z5TZiRA=A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Freezing without write I/O  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Avoiding bloat in the presence of a long-running transaction (Re: Freezing without write I/O)  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The long running query problem hasn't ever been looked at, it seems,
> until here and now.

For what it's worth (and that may not be much), I think most people
will die a horrible death due to bloat after holding a transaction
open for a tiny fraction of 2B XIDs.  :-(

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



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