On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mikko Partio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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). > > > > I think I may have found the problem, the import uses a temporary table which I guess autovacuum can not handle? Manually vacuuming it changed the relfrozenxids of other tables dramatically. Regards Mikko
