Re: How is autovacuum affected by a change in year.

Hanns Hartman <hwhartman@gmail.com> writes:
> I am running postgres 8.3.17 on a RedHat linux derivative using a mips64
> architecture.

You realize of course that 8.3 is long out of support ...

> I've recently noticed some odd autovacuum behavior.

> Recently we've had some systems deployed with the system clock set to the
> year 2016.  Postgres was installed with that date and things were fine
> until a user noticed the incorrect date.  They reset the system time back
> to 2015 and then we started seeing weird behavior where the autovacuum
> proccess does not seem to be maintaining the disk space.

I would not be surprised if the autovacuum launcher thinks that it doesn't
need to touch that database again until 2016.  A quick DB restart should
fix it.

            regards, tom lane