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From: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Autovacuum and XID wraparound
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:54:09 -0400
Message-ID: <1179244449.6057.0.camel@goldbach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<1179197343.6047.47.camel@goldbach>
	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 2007-15-05 at 09:07 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I agree, the note should be added there (but it should be a short one
> and refer the reader someplace else for more complete details).

I've applied the attached patch to HEAD and REL8_2_STABLE.

-Neil



Attachments:

  [text/x-patch] autovacuum_xid_wraparound-2.diff (918B, 2-autovacuum_xid_wraparound-2.diff)
  download | inline diff:
Index: doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/neilc/postgres/cvs_root/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.122
diff -c -p -r1.122 config.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	20 Apr 2007 02:37:37 -0000	1.122
--- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	15 May 2007 15:04:35 -0000
*************** SELECT * FROM parent WHERE key = 2400;
*** 3172,3177 ****
--- 3172,3183 ----
          This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
          file or on the server command line.
         </para>
+        <para>
+         Note that even when this parameter is disabled, the system
+         will periodically launch autovacuum processes in order to
+         prevent transaction ID wraparound.  See <xref
+         linkend="vacuum-for-wraparound"> for more information.
+        </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
  


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