When I set up a database with tons of data I forgot to check in the .conf file that autovacuum was on. Now it seems that the stat collection has prepared some tasks to be done for autovacuum - from my experience I can tell that this will take weeks or even months. I disabled autovacuum in the conf file, shut down the database, restarted it but the autovacuum process is comming up again and again. If I kill the process it takes just some minutes to start again to do it's jobs it has in memory. So, my question should be quite simple - how do I shut down autovacuum finally to not do anything more on this tables - I hope the answer is also as simple, but until right now I didn't find any solution for that. I'm using 8.2.5 version. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate