Pallav Kalva <pkalva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We turned on autovacuums on 8.2 and we have a database which is read > only , it is basically a USPS database used only for address lookups > (only SELECTS, no updates/deletes/inserts). > This database has about 10gig data and yesterday autovacuum started > on this database and all of a sudden I see lot of archive logs generated > during this time, I guess it might have generated close to 3-4gig data > during this period. Probably represents freezing of old tuples, which is a WAL-logged operation as of 8.2. Is it likely that the data is 200M transactions old? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly