Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?

From: Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>
Subject: Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
Date: 2007-08-31 18:42:11
Message-ID: 46D86103.6060204@livedatagroup.com
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Mark Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:25 -0400, Pallav Kalva wrote:
>
>> Can you please correct me if I am wrong, I want to understand how this
>> works.
>> Based on what you said, it will run autovacuum again when it passes 200M
>> transactions, as SELECTS are transactions too and are going on these
>> tables.
>> But the next time when it runs autovacuum, it shouldnt freeze the tuples
>> again as they are already frozen and wont generate lot of archive logs ?
>> Or is this because of it ran autovacuum for the first time on this db ?
>> just the first time it does this process ?
>>
>
> That is correct. The tuples are now frozen, which means that they will
> not need to be frozen ever again unless you insert/update any records.
>
>

My main concern is filling up my disk with archive logs, so from all the
replies I get is that since tuples are already frozen, next time when it
runs autovacuum it wont generate any archive logs.

Is my assumption right ?

Thanks! everybody on all your replies. It's was very helpful.

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