Re: Disable autovacuum on specific tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Disable autovacuum on specific tables
Date
Msg-id 20121024201728.GH6853@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Disable autovacuum on specific tables  (Shaun Thomas <sthomas@optionshouse.com>)
List pgsql-general
Shaun Thomas escribió:
> On 10/24/2012 02:57 PM, Eliot Gable wrote:
>
> >In general, autovacuum seems to work well on most of the tables I deal
> >with. However, in a couple of specific cases, it seems to fail
> >miserably. I would like to switch to manual vacuuming on those tables
> >and disable auto-vacuuming for those tables alone. Is this possible?
>
> ALTER TABLE foo SET (autovacuum_enabled = false,
> toast.autovacuum_enabled = false);

Note that if you don't set toast.autovacuum_enabled, the toast table
inherits from the main table setting.  So you turn it off for both just
by setting autovacuum_enabled=false.  The toast setting is there so that
you can set them differently if necessary.

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