John DeSoi <desoi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My reason for wanting to turn it off is that every time it would run > the fans on my development system would rev up. Well, I have an equally lame reason for wanting to not run autovac: it'll interfere with profiling because the autovac daemon will drop a gmon.out file once a minute or so, and maybe overwrite a profiling run's results before you can print them out. But AFAICS both of these wishes can be served pretty well just by increasing autovacuum_naptime to some large value, once a day maybe. They don't strike me as compelling reasons why autovac should be turned off entirely. regards, tom lane
