Anj Adu escribió:
> We have a few 8.1 installations where the vacuumdb -a command takes
> 2-3 days to run ..(with a vacuum delay of 10ms)...autovac does not
> work for us as we have tables that get constantly dropped due to
> partitioning.(autovac would never finish given the size of our
> database
I think you should set pg_autovacuum.enabled=false for those tables to
avoid having autovac work uselessly on them.
> and the fact that we have some "idle transactions" caused by
> our application server coneection pools.)
If this is really a problem, it's not going to be limited to autovacuum;
regular vacuum is going to be affected too.
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