Re: auto vacuuming - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: auto vacuuming
Date
Msg-id 0EC17362-8EA3-468C-BC3A-19A0EB9A3A64@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: auto vacuuming  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mar 31, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>>> I think the closest approximation of disabling autovacuum on a
>>> per database basis is to connect to the database in question and
>>> perform:
>>>
>>> update pg_autovacuum set enabled = 'false';
>>>
>>> This will prevent autovacuum from vacuuming or analyzing any of
>>> the tables in the database, but will still check for XID wraparound.
>>>
>>
>> Problem with that is any time you add a table you'd need to re-run
>> that
>> command. Wouldn't be so bad if we had DDL triggers, but...
>>
>
> Probably a dumb comment, but can you set a default value for the
> enabled column?

As Tom pointed out, that wouldn't help because rows aren't
automatically added to pg_autovacuum.
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