Re: Autovacuum of independent tables

From: Michael Holzman <michaelholzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ravi Krishna <srkrishna(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum of independent tables
Date: 2020-09-08 11:48:10
Message-ID: CAPNViJpzAQ9ZCsgTW190A7Mvh=dd1dYF403OAV6+3C2PDbaeqA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 1:52 PM Ravi Krishna wrote:

>
>
> Interesting. Are you telling the Oracle version of the code had no
> intermittent COMMIT and relied on one
> final COMMIT at the end. Even in Oracle developers must have planned for
> commit since a long running
> open transaction can lead to “snapshot too old” error.
>
Yes, I am saying just that. With one important clarification: there were no
transactions as SELECT does not open them and the application does not
change anything on that connection.
So, no 'snapshot too old' and no COMMITs.

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Regards,
Michael Holzman

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