Re: transactoin id wraparound problem

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: transactoin id wraparound problem
Date: 2006-09-06 17:57:27
Message-ID: 1157565447.20424.16.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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Transaction ID wraparound is a cluster issue, not an individual database
issue. Due to the way PostgreSQL is designed, you need to vacuum ALL
your databases, but you don't need a FULL vacuum on them all, just a
regular vacuum.

I'm guessing that your other databases aren't real big anyway, so it
shouldn't be a big problem. If your other databases are huge, then
yeah, it might take a while.

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:39, Sriram Dandapani wrote:
> I started this about a few hours ago (I guess the message shows as a
> general warning)..I am only interested in the specific database..will
> this command NOT do a full vacuum of the specific database(I would like
> to save the few hours that I invested in this vacuum command if
> possible)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:35 AM
> To: Sriram Dandapani
> Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] transactoin id wraparound problem
>
> Change the -f to -a
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 11:02, Sriram Dandapani wrote:
> > I created a super user using the createuser command and issued
> >
> > vacuumdb -f -U superuser <database-name>
> >
> > I still keep getting a decreasing transaction count warning. Am I
> doing
> > something wrong here.(The database is about 120G and while I do expect
> > vacuum full to take time, I expect the warning to show an increasing
> > count)

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