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Re: Unexplained Major Vacuum Archive Activity During Vacuum

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Shaun Thomas wrote:

> Ok, that might explain it, then. We did in fact just upgrade from 8.2 to 
> 9.1 about 2 weeks ago. And no, I didn't do a VACUUM FREEZE, just a 
> VACUUM ANALYZE to make sure stats were ready. I'm still a little 
> uncertain what the tangible difference is between a FREEZE and a regular 
> VACUUM. I get that it sets freeze_min_age to 0, but why does that even 
> matter? Is 50M out of 2B not good enough? Every VACUUM knocks the 
> counter back to the minimum, so I guess I don't get the justification 
> for magically forcing the minimum to be lower.

You might find this section of the docs illuminating:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND

-Kevin


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