Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C691337B7D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:41:17 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05052-04 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:41:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37BC1337B5C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:41:09 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p0LNecBv002082; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:40:38 -0500 (EST) To: "John Lister" cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit? In-reply-to: References: <927BF3A3F54247FF8C63219A00CE98B5@squarepi.com> <1427.1295651046@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "John Lister" message dated "Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:33:36 +0000" Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:40:38 -0500 Message-ID: <2081.1295653238@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/144 X-Sequence-Number: 36584 "John Lister" writes: > On another bizarre note, A database wide vacuum has just finished, but I'm > still getting the warnings: > GMT WARNING: database "backend" must be vacuumed within 10205310 > transactions Did you do that vacuum as a superuser? regards, tom lane