On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Talha Khan wrote:
> datfrozenxid column of pg_database row is updated at the completion of any
> database wide vacuum operation. The value store here is the cuttoff xid used
> by the vacuum operation all xid's older then this cutoffxid are replaced by
> theis xid so i think the behaviour being shown by your database is quite
> normal.

True, but if age(xid) is showing how many transactions have occured
since xid then his conclusion that he did 500k transactions between
those two snapshots is correct.
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