Re: [PERFORM] Turning off Autovacuum

2007-03-05 Thread Steven Flatt
Yeah, I'm hoping there's an easier way. I'd have to put several thousand entries in the pg_autovacuum table only to remove them a few minutes later. What I really want is to disable the daemon. Any idea why I can't just simply set autovacuum to off? Steve On 3/5/07, Tomas Vondra <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PERFORM] Turning off Autovacuum

2007-03-05 Thread Tomas Vondra
If you want to disable it only for some tables, you can put special values into pg_autovacuum. This won't disable the autovacuum daemon, but some of the tables won't be vacuumed. Tomas Not quite a performance question, but I can't seem to find a simple answer to this. We're using 8.1.4 and th

[PERFORM] Turning off Autovacuum

2007-03-05 Thread Steven Flatt
Not quite a performance question, but I can't seem to find a simple answer to this. We're using 8.1.4 and the autovacuum daemon is running every 40 seconds cycling between 3 databases. What is the easiest way to disable the autovacuumer for a minute or two, do some other work, then re-enable it?