VACUUM VERBOSE and autovacuum log reports were taught to report the
details of how VACUUM advanced relfrozenxid (and relminmxid) by commit
872770fd. Highlight this by adding a "Tip" to the documentation, next
to related discussion of age(relfrozenxid) monitoring.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk0C1O-MKkOrj4YAfsGRru2=cA2VQpqM-9R1HNuG3nFaQ@mail.gmail.com
cutoff XID to the current transaction's XID.
</para>
+ <tip>
+ <para>
+ When the <command>VACUUM</command> command's <literal>VERBOSE</literal>
+ parameter is specified, <command>VACUUM</command> prints various
+ statistics about the table. This includes information about how
+ <structfield>relfrozenxid</structfield> and
+ <structfield>relminmxid</structfield> advanced. The same details appear
+ in the server log when autovacuum logging (controlled by <xref
+ linkend="guc-log-autovacuum-min-duration"/>) reports on a
+ <command>VACUUM</command> operation executed by autovacuum.
+ </para>
+ </tip>
+
<para>
<command>VACUUM</command> normally only scans pages that have been modified
since the last vacuum, but <structfield>relfrozenxid</structfield> can only be