Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From David Morton
Subject Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum
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In response to Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum  (Fernando Hevia <fhevia@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum  (Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>)
Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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What are the implications of doing this ?
Some times we experience the vacuum being started to prevent wraparound, i understand this will always take place if required regardless of autovacuum settings ?

Is there any way of making the table 'read only' so its nice and tidy / immutable ?

Dave

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Fernando Hevia <fhevia@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:30 PM, David Morton <davidmorton78@gmail.com> wrote:
We have many large tables which contain static historical data, they are auto vacuumed on a regular basis (sometimes to prevent wraparound) which i suspect causes a few annoying side effects:
- Additional WAL file generation
- Increased 'changed' data as far as our online rsync based backups are concerned

Is there any way to tell Postgres that these tables are now not available for changes so we can avoid these seemingly pointless maintenance tasks ?

ALTER TABLE table_name SET (
  autovacuum_enabled = false
); 

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