xmin horizon?

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#1CS DBA
cs_dba@consistentstate.com

All;

The documentation for pg_stat_activity lists this column:

backend_xmin xid The current backend's xmin horizon.

Can someone point me to a better understanding on "xmin horizon"?

Thanks in advance

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#2Michael Paquier
michael@paquier.xyz
In reply to: CS DBA (#1)
Re: xmin horizon?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:13 AM, CS DBA <cs_dba@consistentstate.com> wrote:

The documentation for pg_stat_activity lists this column:

backend_xmin xid The current backend's xmin horizon.

Can someone point me to a better understanding on "xmin horizon"?

This defines the oldest transaction ID that a given backend is currently seeing.
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#3Torsten Förtsch
torsten.foertsch@gmx.net
In reply to: CS DBA (#1)
Re: xmin horizon?

On 29/07/15 21:13, CS DBA wrote:

The documentation for pg_stat_activity lists this column:

backend_xmin xid The current backend's xmin horizon.

Can someone point me to a better understanding on "xmin horizon"?

https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/mvcc.pdf

you can find this talk also on youtube. It's worth watching.

Torsten

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