Re: autovacuum ignore tables

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: autovacuum ignore tables
Date: 2006-09-19 04:10:26
Message-ID: 450F6DB2.5060908@zeut.net
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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.)
>
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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