I would guess that you are not running vacuumdb as a user with permission to vacuum the postgres or template1 databases. Try telling vacuumdb to log in as postgres or whatever your superuser account is called. > -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Marinos Yannikos > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:11 PM > To: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PERFORM] VACUUM FULL needed sometimes to prevent > transaction ID wraparound? > > > Hello, > > we're looking into the reason why we are getting warnings about > transaction ID wraparound despite a daily "vaccumdb -qaz". Someone is > claiming that VACUUM without FULL cannot reassign XIDs properly when > max_fsm_pages was set too low (it says so here too, but this > is rather > old: > http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html#maxfsmp). Is > this true, or do we have a different issue here? We're using > 8.1.3 with > a database generated on 8.1.3 (i.e. not migrated from 7.x or anything > like that). > > Thanks, > Marinos > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings >