On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:05 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. Please note that nearly EVERYTHING that happens in postgres is a transaction. if you type a single command, boom, it's a transaction. You actually get fewer transaction events if you enclose a bunch of stuff in begin; commit; pairs than if you run single commands. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin