Re: [GENERAL] Temporary disable autovacuum in pgsql 8.1.0

2005-12-06 Thread Richard van den Berg
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06-12-2005 16:07:41: > That documentation is exactly correct.  Note that it doesn't say "can > only be set at server start" full stop. That's a very suttle difference, but you are right of couse. It's the word 'only' that threw me off. In my mind, it should

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary disable autovacuum in pgsql 8.1.0

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Richard van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06-12-2005 15:49:28: >> Couldn't you have just set autovacuum = off in postgresql.conf? (Unlike >> some other things, this setting can be changed after postmaster start.) > If that is true, the documentation

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary disable autovacuum in pgsql 8.1.0

2005-12-06 Thread Richard van den Berg
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06-12-2005 15:49:28: > Couldn't you have just set autovacuum = off in postgresql.conf?  (Unlike > some other things, this setting can be changed after postmaster start.) If that is true, the documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime-c

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary disable autovacuum in pgsql 8.1.0

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Richard van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are in the process of upgrading our 400GB database from PostgreSQL > 7.4.7 to 8.1.0. During the pg_restore I noticed that the autovacuum > process was slowing things down significantly. I should have disabled it > in postgresql.conf before start

[GENERAL] Temporary disable autovacuum in pgsql 8.1.0

2005-12-06 Thread Richard van den Berg
We are in the process of upgrading our 400GB database from PostgreSQL 7.4.7 to 8.1.0. During the pg_restore I noticed that the autovacuum process was slowing things down significantly. I should have disabled it in postgresql.conf before starting the restore (duh). Not wanting to restart the restore