From d8986332cb98d0463baacf87552c9059d28da731 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:37:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document that autovacuum_freeze_max_age is used for pg_clog
recycling. We already mentioned xid wraparound.
---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index d437727d335..8e91a744d71 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 1.305 2010/08/19 22:55:00 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.306 2010/08/22 02:37:32 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -4150,7 +4150,8 @@ 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.
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