Hello, Running latest 9.3.9. Database was never pg_upgraded. I list pg_multixact/offsets and pg_multixact/members and I see many files with dates more than one year old. Is that ok? # ls -1 members/[0-9A-F]* | wc -l 894 # ls -la members | head total 127064 drwx------ 2 pgsql pgsql 896 Mar 31 2014 . drwx------ 4 pgsql pgsql 4 Dec 11 2013 .. -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0000 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0001 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0002 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0003 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0004 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0005 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0006 # ls -la members | tail -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0374 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0375 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0376 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0377 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0378 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 0379 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 31 2014 037A -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 31 2014 037B -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 31 2014 037C -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 253952 Jun 24 01:58 037D As shown, only file 037D in members was recently changed. The same in offsets: # ls -1 offsets/[0-9A-F]* | wc -l 60 # ls -la offsets | head total 15795 drwx------ 2 pgsql pgsql 62 Mar 30 2014 . drwx------ 4 pgsql pgsql 4 Dec 11 2013 .. -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0000 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 11 2013 0001 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Dec 21 2013 0002 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Jan 12 2014 0003 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Jan 29 2014 0004 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Feb 6 2014 0005 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Feb 9 2014 0006 # ls -la offsets | tail -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 24 2014 0032 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 24 2014 0033 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 25 2014 0034 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 26 2014 0035 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 27 2014 0036 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 28 2014 0037 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 28 2014 0038 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 29 2014 0039 -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 262144 Mar 30 2014 003A -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 172032 Jun 24 01:58 003B As shown, only file 003B in members was recently changed. # pg_controldata /usr/local/pgsql/logs/data pg_control version number: 937 Catalog version number: 201306121 Database system identifier: 5896471202307701721 Database cluster state: in production pg_control last modified: Thu Jun 25 14:42:42 2015 Latest checkpoint location: 26FF/685373F0 Prior checkpoint location: 26FF/680609E0 Latest checkpoint's REDO location: 26FF/680658A0 Latest checkpoint's REDO WAL file: 00000005000026FF00000068 Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID: 5 Latest checkpoint's PrevTimeLineID: 5 Latest checkpoint's full_page_writes: on Latest checkpoint's NextXID: 1/3898164439 Latest checkpoint's NextOID: 23515628 Latest checkpoint's NextMultiXactId: 3908584 Latest checkpoint's NextMultiOffset: 46799749 Latest checkpoint's oldestXID: 3698648295 Latest checkpoint's oldestXID's DB: 131438 Latest checkpoint's oldestActiveXID: 3898164439 Latest checkpoint's oldestMultiXid: 1 Latest checkpoint's oldestMulti's DB: 131438 Time of latest checkpoint: Thu Jun 25 14:42:39 2015 Fake LSN counter for unlogged rels: 0/1 Minimum recovery ending location: 0/0 Min recovery ending loc's timeline: 0 Backup start location: 0/0 Backup end location: 0/0 End-of-backup record required: no Current wal_level setting: hot_standby Current max_connections setting: 500 Current max_prepared_xacts setting: 0 Current max_locks_per_xact setting: 64 Maximum data alignment: 8 Database block size: 8192 Blocks per segment of large relation: 131072 WAL block size: 8192 Bytes per WAL segment: 16777216 Maximum length of identifiers: 64 Maximum columns in an index: 32 Maximum size of a TOAST chunk: 1996 Date/time type storage: 64-bit integers Float4 argument passing: by value Float8 argument passing: by value Data page checksum version: 0 -- Piotr Gasidło -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general