Re: truncating pg_multixact/members

From: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: truncating pg_multixact/members
Date: 2014-01-07 00:50:42
Message-ID: 52CB4F62.3060902@nasby.net
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On 1/4/14, 8:19 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Also, while multixactid_freeze_min_age should be low, perhaps a
> million as you suggest, multixactid_freeze_table_age should NOT be
> lowered to 3 million or anything like it. If you do that, people who
> are actually doing lots of row locking will start getting many more
> full-table scans. We want to avoid that at all cost. I'd probably
> make the default the same as for vacuum_freeze_table_age, so that
> mxids only cause extra full-table scans if they're being used more
> quickly than xids.

Same default as vacuum_freeze_table_age, or default TO vacuum_freeze_table_age? I'm thinking the latter makes more sense...
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Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect jim(at)nasby(dot)net
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