Re: temporarily disable autovacuum on a database or server ?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <postgres(at)2xlp(dot)com> wrote:

> I've run into a performance issue, and I think autovacuum may be involved.
>
> does anyone know if its possible to temporarily stop autovacuum without a
> server restart ?
>
> It seems that it either requires a server restart, or specific tables to
> be configured.
>
> Several times a day/week, I run a handful of scripts to handle database
> maintenance and backups:
>
> * refreshing materialized views
> * calculating analytics/derived/summary tables and columns
> * backing up the database (pg_dumpall > bz2 > archiving)
>
> These activities have occasionally overlapped with autovacuum, and the
> performance seems to be affected.
>
>
>
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*I can't confirm this, but have you tried :*

*SELECT set_config('autovacuum', 'off'', false);*

*SELECT pg_reload_conf(); *

*note: you must be a superuser for above*
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