Re: solving wraparound

On 12/27/05, Lic. Martin Marques <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > This might be a good time to press your buddy to move to 8.1 ;-)
> > PG 8.1 contains logic that should positively prevent a wraparound, by
> > shutting down the server if wraparound gets too close.
>

that was my advice :)

> But if VACUUM fixes the wraparound issue, shouldn't even a badly
> configured autovacuum make the wraparound not be a problem in 8.1? Or did
> I miss understand how this works?
>

but you can disable autovacuum (i do not why you can do something like
that but i guess someone will have a good reason)... actually it comes
off by default in all distros i have seen but windows...

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Jaime Casanova
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