Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B375632629 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:48:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94246-02 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com (unknown [207.173.203.215]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D01863260A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:48:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E178F348034; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:47:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at commandprompt.com Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spinlock.commandprompt.com.commandprompt.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VtkeLxwE+Hfm; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-85-200-241.bk3-dsl.surnet.cl [200.85.200.241]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C5A6348002; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 581236E510; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:47:28 -0400 (CLT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Bruce Momjian , Josh Berkus , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this? From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane In-reply-to: <22915.1282581632@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <201008221651.o7MGplA28857@momjian.us> <1282579975-sup-2769@alvh.no-ip.org> <22915.1282581632@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:47:28 -0400 Message-Id: <1282581999-sup-8560@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Sup/git Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.107 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RDNS_NONE=0.793 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/1639 X-Sequence-Number: 168442 Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 23 12:40:32 -0400 2010: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of dom ago 22 12:51:47 -0400 2010: > >> Do you have a suggestion? Reorder the items? > > > I'd add another para before that one saying that this value "also" > > affects pg_clog truncation. I agree that putting pg_clog truncation as > > the first item here is not an improvement. For most people, having > > those pg_clog files there or not is going to be a wash, compared to data > > size. > > I was going to suggest that the point about pg_clog should be in a > separate paragraph *after* this one, since it seems like a secondary > issue. But anyway, I agree with putting this para back as it was and > talking about clog in a separate para. Sorry, yes, I was also thinking "after". I don't know what made me write "before" but it wasn't clarity of thought. -- Álvaro Herrera The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support