Re: Millions of tables

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Alex Ignatov (postgrespro)" <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Terry Schmitt <tschmitt(at)schmittworks(dot)com>, pgsql-performa(dot) <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Millions of tables
Date: 2016-10-08 21:42:01
Message-ID: bce33408-16f1-fb5d-671a-f73072c83bc3@BlueTreble.com
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On 10/5/16 7:34 AM, Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
> When you say "must do a vacuum of the entire database", are you saying
> the entire database must be vacuum'd as a whole per 2B transactions or
> all tables must be vacuum'd eventually at least once?

All tables at least once. Prior to 9.6, that had to happen ever 2B
transactions. With 9.6 there's a freeze map, so if a page never gets
dirtied between vacuum freeze runs then it doesn't need to be frozen.
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