Justin Pasher <just...@newmediagateway.com> writes:
> As you can see, it is starting to approach the 2 billion mark. If I 
> change the datallowconn setting to TRUE, connect to template0, then 
> perform a VACUUM FREEZE, the age(datfrozenxid) goes way down (probably 
> around the 3 million mark). However, over time (typically less than two 
> weeks), the number slowly creeps higher and higher, until our custom 
> monitoring software starts spitting out a warning/error that the 
> database should be vacuumed soon.

Recommendation: fix that monitoring software to ignore databases with
datallowconn = false.  They're not supposed to need vacuuming.
(autovacuum will process them anyway for safety's sake, but they're
not supposed to need it.)

                        regards, tom lane

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