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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: John Naylor <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: do only critical work during single-user vacuum?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 17:56:16 -0800
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Hi,

On 2021-12-09 16:34:53 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> But even still, why not have some variant of single-user mode just for
> this task?

> Something that's easy to use when the DBA is rudely
> awakened at 4am -- something a little bit like a big red button that
> fixes the exact problem of XID exhaustion, in a reasonably targeted
> way? I don't think that this needs to involve the VACUUM command
> itself.

I think we should move *away* from single user mode, rather than the
opposite. It's a substantial code burden and it's hard to use.

I don't think single user mode is a good fit for this anyway - it's inherently
focussed on connecting to a single database. But wraparound issues often
involve more than one database (often just because of shared catalogs).


Also, requiring a restart will often exascerbate the problem - the cache will
be cold, there's no walwriter, etc, making the vacuum slower. Making vacuum
not consume an xid seems like a lot more promising - and quite doable. Then
there's no need to restart at all.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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