On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Lentes, Bernd <bernd.lentes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello ML, > > I'm very new to Postgres. > In the log, i got messages concerning transaction ID wraparound. > I red the documentation and made a vaccum on that database. > In the documentation i also found the hint to look in the database with > "SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database;", which i did. > I did the command several times in a few seconds, and this number is growing very quickly, > although i'm not expecting transactions in the database. > Sometimes the number grows by 5 in one second. > I'm also astonished about the fact that all databases grow by the same amount. > Do you have any explanations for this behaviour ? > Why are the numbers growing so quickly ? What kind of work load is on the database? How frequent are UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE statements called by that workload? If you don't already have the answer to these questions, I would recommend a reporting tool like pgfouine to get them easily. -lee -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin