Re: How to disable the autovacuum ?

Many thanks Tom for your feedback. I appreciate it.

Actually the tests work in parallel with autovacuum, I just wanted to
minimize the test time since the autovacuum launches in the middle of the
many regression and robustness tests. But then I follow your advice.

Regards

Esteban

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 3:49 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Esteban Zimanyi <ezimanyi(at)ulb(dot)ac(dot)be> writes:
> > Any idea how to disable the autovacuum during the regression and coverage
> > tests for the MobilityDB extension ?
>
> TBH, this seems like a pretty bad idea. If your extension doesn't
> behave stably with autovacuum it's not going to be much use in the
> real world.
>
> In the core tests, we sometimes disable autovac for individual
> tables using a per-table storage option, but that's a last resort.
>
> regards, tom lane
>