Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?

[Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>]

Mark Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:25 -0400, Pallav Kalva wrote:
>   
> > Can you please correct me if I am wrong, I want to understand how this 
> > works.
> > Based on what you said, it will run autovacuum again when it passes 200M 
> > transactions, as SELECTS are transactions too and are going on these 
> > tables.
> > But the next time when it runs autovacuum, it shouldnt freeze the tuples 
> > again as they are already frozen and wont generate lot of archive logs ?
> > Or is this because of it ran autovacuum for the first time on this db ? 
> > just the first time it does this process ?
> >     
>
> That is correct.  The tuples are now frozen, which means that they will
> not need to be frozen ever again unless you insert/update any records.
>
>   

My main concern is filling up my disk with archive logs, so from all the 
replies I get is that since tuples are already frozen, next time when it 
runs autovacuum it wont generate any archive logs.

Is my assumption right ?

Thanks! everybody on all your replies. It's was very helpful.

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