Re: Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Shaw <redsmurfau(at)msn(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full
Date: 2008-08-05 16:36:48
Message-ID: 10052.1217954208@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
>> On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote:
>>> "WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions
>>> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in
>>> "mydb".

> BTW, what version of PostgreSQL is this? Database-wide vacuum is no
> longer required for XID wraparound issues. I think this was an 8.3
> change but might have happened in 8.2, I don't remember.

8.2. But you could still get that message, even in CVS HEAD, if
autovacuum was failing to complete for some reason (and had been
failing for quite a long time).

regards, tom lane

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