Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think we could give autovac a "reason for being started", which would
> > normally be the periodic stuff, but if the postmaster got the signal
> > from a backend, pass that info to autovac and it could use a different
> > database s
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think we could give autovac a "reason for being started", which would
> normally be the periodic stuff, but if the postmaster got the signal
> from a backend, pass that info to autovac and it could use a different
> database selection algorithm -- say,
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think it'd be good to put a big, fat WARNING in the log if we fire up
> an autovac to avoid an XID wrap, since it's an indication that the
> vacuuming scheme that's in place probably isn't good enough.
No, for nonconnectable databases it'd be expected
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:39:27AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 20:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In fact, maybe we should just force an autovac cycle for any DB that
> > appears to be approaching wraparound, rather than waiting for the
> > shutdown-before-wraparound code to kic
Tom Lane wrote:
> In fact, maybe we should just force an autovac cycle for any DB that
> appears to be approaching wraparound, rather than waiting for the
> shutdown-before-wraparound code to kick in. Getting into that state
> amounts to whacking DBAs upside the head for being stupid, which
> doe
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 20:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In fact, maybe we should just force an autovac cycle for any DB that
> appears to be approaching wraparound, rather than waiting for the
> shutdown-before-wraparound code to kick in. Getting into that state
> amounts to whacking DBAs upside the
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This patch has the nasty side effect mentioned above -- people will have
> to set template0 as connectable and manually run vacuum on it
> periodically, unless they run autovacuum.
That's pretty messy --- making template0 connectable is a great way to
s
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > What I'm after is not freezing for read-only media, nor archive, nor
> > > read-only tables. What I'm after is removing the requirement that all
> > > databases must be vacuumed wholly every 2 billion tran
