On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:45:31AM -0600, Jerry Champlin wrote: > This makes sense. What queries can I run to see how close to the limit > we are? We need to determine if we should stop the process which > updates and inserts into this table until after the critical time this > afternoon when we can perform the required maintenance on this table. select datname, age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database; Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007