Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517AF9FB66B for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:21:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42512-02 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:21:02 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDD19FB96D for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:21:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4GLKuIo007668; Wed, 16 May 2007 17:20:56 -0400 (EDT) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Heikki Linnakangas , Chris Browne , pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [DOCS] Autovacuum and XID wraparound In-reply-to: <20070516210531.GL4582@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <857.1179184222@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20070515221347.GT12731@alvh.no-ip.org> <23362.1179292856@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20070516124420.GA4582@alvh.no-ip.org> <464B0E5A.1070807@enterprisedb.com> <6549.1179344646@sss.pgh.pa.us> <464B60A7.3070106@enterprisedb.com> <7145.1179347418@sss.pgh.pa.us> <464B6B08.6030609@enterprisedb.com> <7460.1179349272@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20070516210531.GL4582@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Wed, 16 May 2007 17:05:32 -0400" Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:20:56 -0400 Message-ID: <7667.1179350456@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/257 X-Sequence-Number: 2357 Alvaro Herrera writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Heikki Linnakangas writes: >>> How about freezing anything older than vacuum_freeze_min_age, just like >>> VACUUM does? >> >> I suppose that'd be OK, but is it likely to be worth the trouble? > I think so, because it means that people using CLUSTER to keep the size > of tables in line instead of VACUUM, would not need the otherwise > mandatory VACUUM. Fair enough. Who will fix the already-applied patch? regards, tom lane