Csaba Nagy wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 17:40, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Huh, why do you say that it doesn't need any vacuuming? > > This table is only inserted and rarely deleted, so other than the XID > wraparound vacuuming it is not critical. Of course it will need vacuum > finally, but it can survive months without it - or till the XID > wraparound occurs, which I can't estimate yet if in danger or not... how > could I check that ? (I can probably find the answer if looking harder > though). select age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database where datname = 'your database' 2 billions and you are screwed. Autovacuum starts panicking way before that, to have enough slack. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC "Un poeta es un mundo encerrado en un hombre" (Victor Hugo)