>>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The expected behavior (in 8.2 and newer) is to maintain about
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age transactions' worth of clog; which is to
say
> about 50MB at the default settings.
The active database I checked, where it didn't go all the way back to
0000, had 50 MB of files; so I guess it is working as intended.
It sounds like the advice to the OP that running VACUUM FREEZE on all
databases to clean up the files was off base?
-Kevin