ha, thanks, my machine is plenty strong, fit and hale, new 16 CPU/64GB RDS instance... I was just curious if there were any performance options to change during a restore for any gains. Seems like good reasons to avoid disabling autovacuum, though.
On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 17:57 -0700, Wells Oliver wrote: > Maybe it's an old wives' tale, but I swear I've read a recommendation to turn > autovacuum off when doing pg_restore into a new server.. Would it make the > restore faster? I think I've restored and then run vacuumdb + analyze, > but I wanted to check.
If your machine is too weak to handle the combined workload of restore + autovacuum, that might get you something. Otherwise, you are just cheating: the restore might be faster, but the database is not usable before autovacuum and autoanalyze have proessed all restored tables.
I wouldn't recommend turning autovacuum off, because it is a dangerous thing to do. If you forget to enable it, your database will be in big trouble.
