Re: pg_stat_database.xact_commit + pg_stat_database.xact_rollback asa reliable metric for xid consumption ? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Achilleas Mantzios
Subject Re: pg_stat_database.xact_commit + pg_stat_database.xact_rollback asa reliable metric for xid consumption ?
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In response to Re: pg_stat_database.xact_commit + pg_stat_database.xact_rollback asa reliable metric for xid consumption ?  (Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_stat_database.xact_commit + pg_stat_database.xact_rollback asa reliable metric for xid consumption ?
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Hello Julien
On 1/6/20 2:03 μ.μ., Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:48 PM Achilleas Mantzios
> <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
>> On 1/6/20 1:36 μ.μ., Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:02 PM Achilleas Mantzios
>>> <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
>>> Because read only transaction usually don't consume an xid.  So yes
>>> pg_stat_database gives a more reasonable approximation of the real
>>> number of transactions happening on the server.
>> Thank you, so what would be the official way to monitor txid consumption (from a MVCC / Freezing admin POV)?
> I'm not sure what you're really looking for.
I've been as explicit as it gets. When ppl talk about vacuum freeze what they have in mind is xmin's and xmax's and the
ratethat xids grow and consume the 2^31 address space, so I find it strange 
 
that such a basic metric is not included in the core statistics collector.
That's all.
>


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