"Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1) Do we need to do a *full* vacuum or just a "lazy" vacuum to take care of > the xid wraparound issues? Lazy is sufficient --- as long as it's database-wide including the system catalogs (which means a superuser has to do it). > Or... is it the case that by one billion, the docs really mean 2^30 > (1073741824) ? 2^30. You appear to have executed a bit under 600000 transactions since vacuuming, so if that's three hours then you've got about 5000 hours until wraparound. > 4) The documentation implies that I need to vacuum *every* database, even if > I'm not using them all, so I vacuumed template1, but can't connect to > template0. Do I really need to vacuum databases where no transactions are > occurring? If so, how to I deal with template0? You don't need to touch frozen databases. This was discussed yesterday ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq