On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> -> > "I'll whack in some manual VACUUM cron jobs during low load maintenance > hours and hope that keeps the worst of the problem away, that's what > random forum posts on the Internet say to do". > -> "oh my, why did my DB just do an emergency shutdown?" > This one doesn't make much sense to me, unless they mucked around with autovacuum_freeze_max_age as well as turning autovacuum itself off (common practice?). With the default setting of autovacuum_freeze_max_age, if it can't complete the anti-wraparound before emergency shutdown with autovac off, it probably would not have completed it with autovac on, either. Cheers, Jeff