From: Rural Hunter <ruralhunter@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large historical tables and autovacuum
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:57:22 +0800
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turn auto vacuum off for those tables.
δΊ 2012/9/11 4:30, David Morton ει:
> We have many large tables which contain static historical data, they
> are auto vacuumed on a regular basis (sometimes to prevent wraparound)
> which i suspect causes a few annoying side effects:
> - Additional WAL file generation
> - Increased 'changed' data as far as our online rsync based backups
> are concerned
>
> Is there any way to tell Postgres that these tables are now not
> available for changes so we can avoid these seemingly pointless
> maintenance tasks ?
>
> Dave
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