Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server
Date: 2008-08-26 17:33:49
Message-ID: 11261.1219772029@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Well, I'm willing to help debug this, however this is a busy production
>> database and I need to be able to turn it off for a few hours a day. Would
>> changing autovacuum_freeze_max_age be a solution ?

> Yes.

Could we first see a cycle of autovac log output with
log_autovacuum_min_duration = 0?
Otherwise we're not going to get closer to understanding why it's
not cleaning up template0 for you.

regards, tom lane

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