On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The largest consequence I can see at the moment is that when I get a
>> full vacuum (for preventing transaction-id wraparound) it would be
>
> I assume you mean the automatic database wide vacuum. I don't think
> 8.4 and above need that anymore. I thnk 8.3 does that too, but I'm
> not 100% sure.
8.4 (and 9.0) do still need to do vacuums to freeze tuples before
transaction ID wraparound occurs. This is not to be confused with
VACUUM FULL, which is something else altogether.
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