The problem I'm facing is that I have many large (several GB) tables that are not being changed (they are several days old) but auto-vacuum keeps scanning and updating them every time the xid wraps around and thus my rsync back-up process sees that the disk files have changed and must copy them. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Avoiding-Refreezing-XIDs-Repeatedly-tp5837222p5837251.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance