On Wednesday 07 March 2012 21:13:26 pawel_kukawski wrote: Hi, > Do you know any real reason why the autovacuum may fail to clear old XIDs? If it's unable to keep up. Or may be, if there're very long running idle in transactions. > Is this highly probable ? postmaster will shutdown to prevent wraparound, if there are fewer than1 million transactions left until wraparound. Rgds, Jens -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general