From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Need Multixact Freezing Docs |
Date: | 2014-04-16 13:32:33 |
Message-ID: | 20140416133233.GL5822@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 02:25 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Hackers,
> >
> > We need documentation on how users should intelligently set the
> > multixact freeze settings. I'm happy to write the actual text, but I
> > definitely don't have any idea how to set these myself. Under what
> > circumstances should they be different from freeze_max_age? How?
Measure consumption rate of multixacts, compare to consumption rate of
xids, and set the freeze ages so that they are reached more-or-less at
the same time, so that freezing for any of them would also freeze the
other one. You need to set both table_freeze_ages to values that would
be reached later than both min_freeze_ages would be reached, if you get
what I mean. The idea is that full scan of a table would fix both
things at once, saving a followup full scan shortly after the first one.
You can see the current multixact value in pg_controldata output. Keep
timestamped values of that somewhere (a table?) so that you can measure
consumption rate. I don't think we provide SQL-level access to those
values.
> Also: how do I check the multixact age of a table? There doesn't seem
> to be any data for this ...
pg_class.relminmxid is the oldest multixact value that might be present
in a table.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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