On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:04, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was alluding to the fact that if a DBA had his system running for a week > at our transaction level, and PG didn't have forced auto vacuum, and their > maintenance lapsed even slightly, they could end up with a corrupt database. It doesn't actually corrupt your database. If you manage to hit the wraparound age, PostgreSQL disallows new connections and tells you to run a VACUUM from a standalone backend. (But that should never happen due to the forced vacuum freeze processes) Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
