Re: Drop database / database in use question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Drop database / database in use question
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Msg-id 20081017154306.GI4218@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Drop database / database in use question  ("Dan Armbrust" <daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com>)
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Dan Armbrust escribió:
> I don't suppose that there is any easy way way that I can stop and/or
> disable the Autovac temporarily for the database that I want to drop.
>
> The only thing that I have seen so far, is that I would have to add
> rows to the pg_autovacuum  table for each table in my database, but
> I'm    not confident that that would even stop it from accessing the
> database, since it says that even when set to disabled, autovacuum
> will still run to prevent transaction id wraparounds, so it seems that
> it still would make make a quick check into the database that my drop
> command could collide with.

You seem to want to go to a lot of trouble just to a void a simple retry
loop.

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