Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
- From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
- To: Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>
- Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:11:58 -0400
- Message-id: <20070831161158.GD8046@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>
Pallav Kalva wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Probably represents freezing of old tuples, which is a WAL-logged
>> operation as of 8.2. Is it likely that the data is 200M transactions
>> old?
>>
> If nothing changed on these tables how can it freeze old tuples ?
> Does it mean that once it reaches 200M transactions it will do the same
> thing all over again ?
No -- once tuples are frozen, they don't need freezing again (unless
they are modified by UPDATE or DELETE).
> If I am doing just SELECTS on these tables ? how can there be any
> transactions ? or SELECTS considered transactions too ?
Selects are transactions too. They just don't modify data.
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