Re: transaction id wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Talha Khan
Subject Re: transaction id wraparound
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Msg-id f80885fc0609281158r49c039fdscb1f409fccf026b2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to transaction id wraparound  ("Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@counterpane.com>)
Responses Re: transaction id wraparound  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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Hi sriram,
 
datfrozenxid column of pg_database row is updated at the completion of any database wide vacuum operation. The value store here is the cuttoff xid used by the vacuum operation all xid's older then this cutoffxid are replaced by theis xid so i think the behaviour being shown by your database is quite normal.
 
Regards
Talha Khan 
 
The datfrozenxid column of a database's pg_database row is updated at the completion of any database-wide VACUUM operation (i.e., VACUUM that does not name a specific table). The value stored in this field is the freeze cutoff XID that was used by that VACUUM command. All normal XIDs older than this cutoff XID are guaranteed to have been replaced by FrozenXID within that database

 
On 9/28/06, Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani@counterpane.com> wrote:

When I run this query

 

fwdb01=# select current_timestamp,datname,age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database;

              now              |  datname  |    age

-------------------------------+-----------+------------

 2006-09-28 18:04:24.489935+00 | postgres  | 1087834006

 2006-09-28 18:04:24.489935+00 | fwdb01    | 2039254861

 2006-09-28 18:04:24.489935+00 | template1 | 2039253122

 2006-09-28 18:04:24.489935+00 | template0 | 1542808250

(4 rows)

 

fwdb01=# select current_timestamp,datname,age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database;

             now              |  datname  |    age

------------------------------+-----------+------------

 2006-09-28 18:10:45.64452+00 | postgres  | 1088357075

 2006-09-28 18:10:45.64452+00 | fwdb01    | 2039777930

 2006-09-28 18:10:45.64452+00 | template1 | 2039776191

 2006-09-28 18:10:45.64452+00 | template0 | 1543331319

 

 

In approximately 6 minutes, the fwdb01 count has gone up by about 500K. I am generating about 250K rows for every 6 . I am also running vacuumdb.

 

Does vacuumdb generate a lot of transactions that affects this counter.


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