From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: alvherre@commandprompt.com, duanlg@nec-as.nec.com.cn, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, "Matt Smiley" <mss@rentrak.com>
Subject: Re: too many clog files
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:42:40 -0400
Message-ID: <2257.1221068560@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> Some of my high-volume databases don't quite go back to 0000, but this
>> does seem to be a problem. I have confirmed that VACUUM FREEZE on all
>> but template0 (which doesn't allow connections) does not clean them
>> up. No long running transactions are present.
> I have a pretty high volume server that's been online for one month
> and it had somewhere around 53, going back in order to 0000, and it
> was recently vacuumdb -az 'ed. Running another one. No long running
> transactions, etc...
The expected behavior (in 8.2 and newer) is to maintain about
autovacuum_freeze_max_age transactions' worth of clog; which is to say
about 50MB at the default settings. If you've got significantly more
than that then we should look more closely.
I don't remember what the truncation rule was in 8.1, so I can't speak
to the OP's complaint.
regards, tom lane
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