From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:36:24 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Expand comment on how pg_upgrade is turning off autovacuum.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_BETA1~185
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d609b08ead450d78d4a567c48111aca6857ec59c;p=postgresql

Expand comment on how pg_upgrade is turning off autovacuum.
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diff --git a/contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c b/contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c
index 4d5f37301b..9331667b8b 100644
--- a/contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c
+++ b/contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c
@@ -172,7 +172,9 @@ start_postmaster(ClusterInfo *cluster, bool quiet)
 	 *
 	 * Using autovacuum=off disables cleanup vacuum and analyze, but
 	 * freeze vacuums can still happen, so we set
-	 * autovacuum_freeze_max_age high too.
+	 * autovacuum_freeze_max_age very high.  We assume all datfrozenxid and
+	 * relfrozen values are less than a gap of 2000000000 from the current
+	 * xid counter, so autovacuum will not touch them.
 	 */	
 	snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd),
 			 SYSTEMQUOTE "\"%s/pg_ctl\" -l \"%s\" -D \"%s\" "