On 8/9/24 03:26, Jim Vanns wrote:
> Hi pggen community!
>
> I am struggling with this error almost daily now and despite various
> efforts, not succeeding in avoiding or dealing with it;
> My questions are;
>
> 1) How should I be managing this? Although not new to PG, I am new to
> this particular problem.
> 2) How can I confirm what processes/tables are contributing to this
> multixact "members" limit?
> 3) What are the units for
> vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age/vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age and
> how should I be
> setting them appropriately for my rates etc.? I can't really find
> anything that explains this clearly.
> 4) How can I check that autovacuum workers are specifically able to
> freeze multixact XIDs and thus avoid this?
pg_stat_activity
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-ACTIVITY-VIEW
wait_event_type
wait_event
Table 28.12. Wait Events of Type LWLock
This might tell you if something is hanging up on a table or tables.
> 5) Can I check if autovacuum is actually succeeding in its work
pg_stat_all_tables
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-ALL-TABLES-VIEW
Will show you the vacuum/analyze that has been done on a table.
> Jim Vanns
> Principal Production Engineer
> Industrial Light & Magic, London
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