Re: solving wraparound

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Lic(dot) Martin Marques" <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: solving wraparound
Date: 2005-12-31 15:34:51
Message-ID: 43B6A51B.10807@zeut.net
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Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> But if VACUUM fixes the wraparound issue, shouldn't even a badly
>> configured autovacuum make the wraparound not be a problem in 8.1? Or did
>> I miss understand how this works?
>>
> but you can disable autovacuum (i do not why you can do something like
> that but i guess someone will have a good reason)... actually it comes
> off by default in all distros i have seen but windows...

Anyone think it might be reasonable to add a GUC option that tells
autovacuum to monitor for wraparound only, and not for more general
usage based vacuuming? Something like autovac_wraparound_only. Not
sure I like the idea, but thought it might be worth some discussion.

Matt

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