John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I can restore the file system backup of pgsql/data to another database > server and then get the info from pg_database. Or I can import a dump > file from 15 minutes before I re-inited the database... Importing a dump will tell you nothing at all, as all the data will be freshly loaded. > What exactly am I looking for though? SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database; where the second column approaches 2 billion. Alternatively, wait a few weeks and note which entries in your live database are increasing rather than staying near 1 billion. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly