Re: Disable autovacuum on specific tables

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
Cc: Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-general(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disable autovacuum on specific tables
Date: 2012-10-24 20:17:28
Message-ID: 20121024201728.GH6853@alvh.no-ip.org
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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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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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