Re: Visibility map, partial vacuums

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Visibility map, partial vacuums
Date: 2009-01-15 01:31:11
Message-ID: 200901150131.n0F1VBa10679@momjian.us
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Would someone tell me why 'autovacuum_freeze_max_age' defaults to 200M
> > when our wraparound limit is around 2B?
> >
>
> Presumably because of this (from the docs):
>
> "The commit status uses two bits per transaction, so if
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age has its maximum allowed value of a little less
> than two billion, pg_clog can be expected to grow to about half a gigabyte."

Oh, that's interesting; thanks.

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