Supplement of procedure suggested

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Subject: Supplement of procedure suggested
Date: 2024-01-17 15:53:34
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/routine-vacuuming.html
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In
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/routine-vacuuming.html

section "25.1.5. Preventing Transaction ID Wraparound Failures" there is a
5-step procedure to handle the "database is not accepting commands"
situation, see "Instead, follow these steps:"

Please, add a notice about temporary tables - they can also prevent
vacuuming!
This is hinted in section "25.1.6. The Autovacuum Daemon", but only
indirectly:
"Temporary tables cannot be accessed by autovacuum. Therefore, appropriate
vacuum and analyze operations should be performed via session SQL
commands."

Just today on a production, I performed (in a single-user mode) vacuum, even
vacuum freeze, and after ending it, DB still didn't accept users.

The useful detection SELECT was
SELECT oid, oid::regclass, relkind, relfrozenxid, age(relfrozenxid) FROM
pg_class WHERE relfrozenxid <> 0 ORDER BY age(relfrozenxid);

Then I realized these were the temporary tables and dropped all the
temporary schemas ... once in a single-user mode :(

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