Re: Specific questions about wraparound and vacuum

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Nick Fankhauser" <nickf(at)doxpop(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Specific questions about wraparound and vacuum
Date: 2007-08-09 01:38:07
Message-ID: 11659.1186623487@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Nick Fankhauser" <nickf(at)doxpop(dot)com> writes:
> One other question- when I'm vacuuming, I always get the warning:

> WARNING: some databases have not been vacuumed in <big number> transactions
> HINT: Better vacuum them within <big number> transactions, or you may
> have a wraparound failure.

> I get these even after all DBs except template0 have been freshly vacuumed. Why?

Do your vacuums change the pg_database.datfrozenxid values for the
databases? The only reason I can think of for them not to do so
is if you're not doing them as superuser ...

regards, tom lane

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