From 17ddb7d65b49422a6b6bc153896b4e2350dbda75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Grittner Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:21:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fix documentation reference to maximum allowed for autovacuum_freeze_max_age. The documentation mentioned setting autovacuum_freeze_max_age to "its maximum allowed value of a little less than two billion". This led to a post asking about the exact maximum allowed value, which is precisely two billion, not "a little less". Based on question by Radovan Jablonovsky. Backpatch to 8.3. --- doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml index caf968ad06..d7ca37c5f3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml @@ -450,8 +450,8 @@ will take more space, because it must store the commit status of all transactions back to the autovacuum_freeze_max_age horizon. The commit status uses two bits per transaction, so if - autovacuum_freeze_max_age is set to its maximum allowed value of - a little less than two billion, pg_clog can be expected to + autovacuum_freeze_max_age is set to its maximum allowed + value of two billion, pg_clog can be expected to grow to about half a gigabyte. If this is trivial compared to your total database size, setting autovacuum_freeze_max_age to its maximum allowed value is recommended. Otherwise, set it depending -- 2.40.0