From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum |
Date: | 2006-02-01 18:18:31 |
Message-ID: | 3155.1138817911@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Hmm, yeah, sounds useful. There's one implementation issue to notice
> however, and it's that the autovacuum process dies and restarts for each
> iteration, so there's no way for it to remember previous state unless
> it's saved somewhere permanent, as the stats info is.
I think you'd really need to remember the previous oldest XID on a
per-table basis to get full traction out of the idea. But weren't we
thinking of tracking something isomorphic to this for purposes of
minimizing anti-wraparound VACUUMs?
regards, tom lane
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