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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-08-22 02:37:38 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-08-22 02:37:38 +0000
commit84d30267c590ee5b82070dbc852dabf6369b507b (patch)
tree7780568132b934c0d3dc05dba228775c0bf07573 /doc/src
parent0804734d9144f5a6010e8f395542c11533b5a1c1 (diff)
Document that autovacuum_freeze_max_age is used for pg_clog recycling.
We already mentioned xid wraparound.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 97d13305707..d4bf703998e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.294.2.5 2010/08/19 22:55:09 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.294.2.6 2010/08/22 02:37:38 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -4117,7 +4117,8 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
<para>
Specifies the maximum age (in transactions) that a table's
<structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relfrozenxid</> field can
- attain before a <command>VACUUM</> operation is forced to prevent
+ attain before a <command>VACUUM</> operation is forced to allow removal
+ of old files from the <filename>pg_clog</> subdirectory and prevent
transaction ID wraparound within the table. Note that the system
will launch autovacuum processes to prevent wraparound even when
autovacuum is otherwise disabled.