Re: vacuum strategy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: vacuum strategy
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0211260854510.8844-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: vacuum strategy  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > Also, full vacuums are required every so often to keep the transaction id
> > from rolling over.
>
> Not so; a plain vacuum is fine for that.  The critical point is that
> *every* table in *every* database has to be vacuumed (plain or full)
> at least once every billion transactions or so.

Really?  Sorry for the misiniformation.  I could have sworn that I read it
on this or the hackers mailing list that only full vacuums could reset the
transaction counter.

Thanks for the catch.


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