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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: bkrug <bkrug@usatech.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding Refreezing XIDs Repeatedly
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:10:35 -0300
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bkrug wrote:
> The problem I'm facing is that I have many large (several GB) tables that are
> not being changed (they are several days old) but auto-vacuum keeps scanning
> and updating them every time the xid wraps around and thus my rsync back-up
> process sees that the disk files have changed and must copy them.

We have considered changing this, but it needs a concerted effort.  It's
not a simple problem.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services


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