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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:26:45 +0100
From: Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>
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To: Steven Flatt <steven.flatt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Turning off Autovacuum
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If you want to disable it only for some tables, you can put special 
values into pg_autovacuum. This won't disable the autovacuum daemon, but 
some of the tables won't be vacuumed.

Tomas
> Not quite a performance question, but I can't seem to find a simple 
> answer to this.  We're using 8.1.4 and the autovacuum daemon is 
> running every 40 seconds cycling between 3 databases.  What is the 
> easiest way to disable the autovacuumer for a minute or two, do some 
> other work, then re-enable it?  Do I have to modify postgresql.conf 
> and send a HUP signal to pick up the changes? 
>  
> I figured this would work but I can't find a reason why not:
>  
> # show autovacuum;
>  autovacuum
> ------------
>  on
> (1 row)
>
> # set autovacuum to off;
> ERROR:  parameter "autovacuum" cannot be changed now
>
> In postgresql.conf:
>
> autovacuum = on
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>