Re: large table

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: large table
Date: 2014-09-22 19:46:21
Message-ID: 54207C8D.5050707@hogranch.com
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On 9/22/2014 12:33 PM, Luke Coldiron wrote:
>
> It is possible and that is part of what I am trying to discover
> however I am very familiar with the system / code base and in this
> case there is a single process updating the timestamp and a single
> process reading the timestamp. There are no other user processes
> programmed to interact with this table outside of potentially what
> Postgres is doing.

ANY other connection to the same postgres server, even to a different
database, that has an open long running transaction (most frequently,
"Idle In Transaction") will block autovacuum from marking the old tuples
as reusable.

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john r pierce 37N 122W
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