Re: autovacuum ignore tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: autovacuum ignore tables
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Msg-id 450F6DB2.5060908@zeut.net
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In response to autovacuum ignore tables  ("Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@counterpane.com>)
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Sriram Dandapani wrote:
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> Hi
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> Is it possible to tell autovacuum to ignore certain tables (These
> tables are high traffic daily partition tables that get dropped every
> other day).
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> I am trying to get autovacuum to complete quicker and prevent Xactn
> wraparound (currently, it takes very long and due to the fact that I
> have to restart the database for maintenance purposes), autovacuum
> never finishes.)
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If you are running PostgreSQL 8.1 with integrated autovacuum, then yes,
you can disable autovacuum on a per table basis, if you are using an
older version with the contrib autovacuum, then no.

Matt


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