Re: Autovacuum ideas

The problem is the PG team are looking at making autovac compulsory (ie. You
can't turn it off). I don't know when, might be in 8.2, but I know the
issue has been discussed on the lists before.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake
Sent: Wednesday, 12 April, 2006 12:51 am
To: Chris Hoover
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum ideas

> This is one thing that is preventing me from turning on autovacuun,.
> However, due to the activity on them, they really need to be vacuumed
> daily. It would be nice to be able to tell autovacuum to run, but
> have a way to tell it to always sleep during these hours ( i.e. 7am to
> 5pm daily). Has there been any thought into a feature like this?

Well... just turn off autovac and then use vacuumdb during off hours via
cron.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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