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To: "John Lister" <john.lister-ps@kickstone.com>
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Subject: Re: controlling autovacuum during the day. 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"John Lister" <john.lister-ps@kickstone.com> writes:
> I'd like to use autovacuum to clean up the tables rather than schedule a 
> full vacuum with cron as it will be more selective/intelligent about what 
> gets cleaned. But is it possible to stop it running during peak/office 
> hours?

No.  Instead, set the vacuum cost parameters to make it run slow enough
to not interfere too much with your work.

			regards, tom lane