Re: AutoVacuum on demand?

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Glen Parker <glenebob(at)nwlink(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AutoVacuum on demand?
Date: 2006-11-14 14:43:26
Message-ID: 4559D60E.20607@zeut.net
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Csaba Nagy wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I think the idea is to edit the postgresql.conf file on the fly and send
>> a SIGHUP to the postmaster. I haven't ever heard of anyone doing that,
>> but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
>>
>
> It works, I did it for a while with the statement_timeout to change it
> globally over night when admin tasks were running. For the
> statement_timeout thing it wasn't optimal however, finally I had to
> ditch the thing... but it can be done.

I'm confused, what does statement timeout have to do with this? I was
assuming you would edit "autovacuum = off" to "autovacuum = on" wouldn't
that work?

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