On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mikko Partio escribió: > > > Now, the problem is that I cannot turn autovacuum off! I have tried to > set > > autovacuum = off at postgresql.conf with no avail. I have also tried to > > disable the vacuum by inserting rows to pg_autovacuum but still the > vacuum > > processes just pop up. What's even more weird is that autovacuum is > > vacuuming the same tables over and over. No sign of xid wraparound > issues > > show in the logs. How can I stop autovacuum without restarting the > database > > instance? > > If your database is in danger of Xid wraparound, autovacuum will run on > it no matter what you do. Check pg_class.relfrozenxid and > pg_database.datfrozenxid, and the current Xid counter (from > pg_controldata I think). Also take a look at the description of the > autovacuum_min_freeze_age param (or was it max_freeze_age? I forget). > But I thought vacuum would send some messages to log if xid wraparound is looming? SELECT relname, age(relfrozenxid) FROM pg_class WHERE relkind = 'r' order by 2 desc limit 4; relname | age ---------------+----------- table1 | 2141707556 table2 | 2141707556 table3 | 2141707556 table4 | 2141707556 SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database; datname | age -----------+------------ template1 | 1833384067 template0 | 1833384065 postgres | 1933384063 mydb | 2040873036 Seems ok to me ... ? autovacuum_freeze_max_age and vacuum_freeze_min_age have the default value. Regards Mikko