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PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition

You're reading from   PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition Effective database management for administrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785883187
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Hannu Krosing Hannu Krosing
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Gabriele Bartolini Gabriele Bartolini
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Simon Riggs Simon Riggs
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades

Avoiding auto-freezing and page corruptions

There are some aspects of VACUUM whose reason to exist is complex to explain, and occasionally they have negative behavior. Let's look more deeply at those and find some solutions.

How to do it...

PostgreSQL uses internal transaction identifiers that are 4 bytes long, so we only have 2^32 transaction IDs (about 4 billion). PostgreSQL starts again from the beginning when that wraps around, allocating new identifiers in a circular manner. The reason we do this is that moving to an 8-byte identifier has various other negative effects and costs that we would rather not pay, so we keep the 4-byte transaction identifier, which means we need to do regular sweeps to replace old transaction...

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