"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> No, you're wrong. VACUUMing of individual tables is perfectly good >> enough as far as XID wrap protection goes, it's just that we chose to >> track whether it had been done at the database level. If we tracked it >> in, say, a new pg_class column then in principle you could protect >> against XID wrap with only table-at-a-time VACUUMs.
> Good, I'm glad I'm wrong on this. This will be another nice advantage > of autovacuum then and should be fairly easy to do. Any thoughts on > this being a change we can get in for 8.1? I'd say this is probably a tad too late --- there's a fair amount of code change that would be needed, none of which has been written, and we are past the feature-freeze deadline for new code. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings