Fix documentation reference to maximum allowed for autovacuum_freeze_max_age.

The documentation mentioned setting autovacuum_freeze_max_age to
"its maximum allowed value of a little less than two billion".
This led to a post asking about the exact maximum allowed value,
which is precisely two billion, not "a little less".

Based on question by Radovan Jablonovsky.  Backpatch to 8.3.
REL8_4_STABLE
Kevin Grittner 14 years ago
parent 1e23454280
commit 5010bbc2c5
  1. 4
      doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml

@ -447,8 +447,8 @@
will take more space, because it must store the commit status for all
transactions back to the <varname>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</> horizon.
The commit status uses two bits per transaction, so if
<varname>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</> has its maximum allowed value of
a little less than two billion, <filename>pg_clog</> can be expected to
<varname>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</> has its maximum allowed
value of two billion, <filename>pg_clog</> can be expected to
grow to about half a gigabyte. If this is trivial compared to your
total database size, setting <varname>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</> to
its maximum allowed value is recommended. Otherwise, set it depending

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