Re: Help me recovering data

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Kouber Saparev <postgresql(at)saparev(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-16 18:08:58
Message-ID: 25760.1108577338@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> I don't think there is much point in making it configurable. If they knew
> to do that they would most likely know to vacuum as well.

Agreed.

> However, 100K out of 1G seems too small. Just to get wrap around there
> must be a pretty high transaction rate, so 100K may not give much warning.
> 1M or 10M seem to be better.

Good point. Even 10M is less than 1% of the ID space. Dunno about you,
but the last couple cars I've owned start flashing warnings when the gas
tank is about 20% full, not 1% full...

regards, tom lane

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