Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: bkrug <bkrug(at)usatech(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly
Date: 2015-02-09 18:53:05
Message-ID: 20150209185305.GF3391@alvh.no-ip.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

bkrug wrote:
> Matheus de Oliveira wrote
> > It changed in recent versions (9.3 or 9.4, I don't recall exactly which)
> > and moved to tuple header, but what you described is exactly what was
> > done,
> > the xid was 2.
>
> Should the relfrozenxid of pg_class then equal 2 for very old and already
> vacuumed tables? Because that is not what I am seeing.

No. The problem is that it's not easy to change the relfrozenxid when
an INSERT/UPDATE command creates a tuple with a non-frozen XID.

--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Matheus de Oliveira 2015-02-09 18:56:04 Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly
Previous Message bkrug 2015-02-09 18:45:53 Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly