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Re: transaction ID wraparound - should I use 'VACUUM' or 'VACUUM FULL' ?

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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Michal Szymanski wrote:
>> In old version of Postgres we have to execute 'VACUUM FULL' to solve
>> problem of  transaction ID wraparound, do we need to execute 'VACUUM
>> FULL' in Postgres 8.3 or 8.4 to avoid this problem?

> No, plain VACUUM suffices.

Just to clarify: plain VACUUM has always sufficed; in *no* version of
Postgres has it ever been the case that VACUUM FULL was more useful
than VACUUM to protect against wraparound.

			regards, tom lane

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