Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? )

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: freezing tuples ( was: Why is vacuum_freeze_min_age 100m? )
Date: 2009-08-13 23:01:08
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On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 18:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, making the limit "slushy" would doubtless save some writes, with
> not a lot of downside.

OK, then should we make this a TODO? I'll make an attempt at this.

> > And people who don't care about forensic evidence can set it to 0-100M.
>
> Everybody *thinks* they don't care about forensic evidence. Until they
> need it.

We already allow setting vacuum_freeze_min_age to zero, so I don't see a
solution here other than documentation.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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