On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Talha Khan wrote: > datfrozenxid column of pg_database row is updated at the completion of any > database wide vacuum operation. The value store here is the cuttoff xid used > by the vacuum operation all xid's older then this cutoffxid are replaced by > theis xid so i think the behaviour being shown by your database is quite > normal. True, but if age(xid) is showing how many transactions have occured since xid then his conclusion that he did 500k transactions between those two snapshots is correct. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)