Re: why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?
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Msg-id dcc563d10907301700r7cb87771g7a32613eb08e25a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?  (Costin Grigoras <costing@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Costin Grigoras<costing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running 8.4 and I've tried to disable autovacuum since the vacuuming is
> taken care internally in the code. The same was true with the previous
> version (8.0 to 8.3) and there was never any problem. However now in 8.4 the
> "off" setting seems to be ignored even if "track_counts = off" and huge
> naptime and thresholds are set. For example this is in the logs:

The only thing I can think of is the automatic kickoff of autovacuum
to prevent transaction wraparound.

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