On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:38 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > > Any idea how to correct existing systems? Would VACUUM FREEZE of just > > the toast tables work? > > VACUUM FREEZE will never set the relfrozenxid backward. If it was never > preserved to begin with, I assume that the existing value could be > arbitrarily before or after, so it might not be updated.
Now that I understand the problem a little better, I think VACUUM FREEZE might work, after all. Originally, I thought that the toast table's relfrozenxid could be some arbitrarily wrong value. But actually, the CREATE TABLE is issued after the xid of the new cluster has already been advanced to the xid of the old cluster, so it should be a "somewhat reasonable" value. That means that VACUUM FREEZE of the toast table, if there are no concurrent transactions, will freeze all of the tuples; and the newFrozenXid should always be seen as newer than the existing (and wrong) relfrozenxid. Then, it will set relfrozenxid to newFrozenXid and everything should be fine. Right? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers