Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to send this to the list:
>
>
> We have a handful of tables that are quite large and take several hours to
> vacuum. We're managing these large tables by using cron via a schedule that
> accounts for system load. I want to pull the list of all tables and exclude
> these large tables from the list, then run the vacuum on the remaining tables
> once a week to avoid transaction ID wraparound failures.
You can't do this in 8.1 -- in that release, the only way to advance the
wraparound safety point is to execute a database-wide vacuum. You can't
exclude tables. If you want to be able to do that you'll need to jump
to 8.2.
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