Re: Vacuum freeze

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum freeze
Date: 2014-12-04 17:26:38
Message-ID: CALd+dcf2z2Kp84FS3FS7bo8zds-edRzXpfmzpYEwQ6GmQju6kQ@mail.gmail.com
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I don't think autovacuum can predict you will not update your table(s)
anymore, so there's no way to know to run FREEZE on it.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>
wrote:

> check_postgres.pl (--action=autovac_freeze) recently complained that we
> needed to run VACUUM FREEZE. Doing so generated a boatload of WAL files -
> perhaps on the order of the of the database itself.
>
> Is VACUUM FREEZE something that is normally handled by autovac? If so,
> how would we approach finding what caused it not to happen automatically?
> Or if it's not, what's the normal approach to scheduling it manually to
> prevent this flood of WAL?
>
>
>

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