"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Anyone think it might be reasonable to add a GUC option that tells
>> autovacuum to monitor for wraparound only, and not for more general
>> usage based vacuuming? Something like autovac_wraparound_only. Not
>> sure I like the idea, but thought it might be worth some discussion.
> I believe 8.1 will actually stop allowing transactions if a wraparound
> is going to occur.
Yeah. I don't see any value to running autovac *only* for this purpose.
regards, tom lane