Thanks Alvaro - did as you suggested and looks to be working better
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@commandprompt.com]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:58 AM
To: Mark Steben
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] auto_vacuum question
Mark Steben wrote:
> We upgraded from postgres 7.4.5 to 8.2.5 a couple weekends ago. I just
> turned auto vacuum on today.
>
> I manually inserted 4 entries in PG_AUTOVACUUM with enabled = 'f' to
exclude
> these larger tables
> That we manually vacuum every night. But the first tables that autovacuum
> chooses to vacuum are
>
> These 4 tables. Am I missing something?
My guess is that you set the rest of the settings to 0, particularly for
the freeze settings. In that case, try changing them to -1.
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