Re: Default setting for autovacuum_freeze_max_age

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-10-21T14:44:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Why is autovacuum_freeze_max_age's default set to 200 million, rather
> than something like 2 billion?  It seems 2 billion is half way to
> wrap-around and would be a better default.  Right now, the default seems
> to freeze 10x more often than it has to.

Please see the archives.  I do not remember the reasoning, but there
was some, and you need to justify why it was wrong not just assert
that you think it's silly.

			regards, tom lane