Justin Pasher <justinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > As you can see, it is starting to approach the 2 billion mark. If I > change the datallowconn setting to TRUE, connect to template0, then > perform a VACUUM FREEZE, the age(datfrozenxid) goes way down (probably > around the 3 million mark). However, over time (typically less than two > weeks), the number slowly creeps higher and higher, until our custom > monitoring software starts spitting out a warning/error that the > database should be vacuumed soon. Recommendation: fix that monitoring software to ignore databases with datallowconn = false. They're not supposed to need vacuuming. (autovacuum will process them anyway for safety's sake, but they're not supposed to need it.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general