Mark Steben wrote: > We upgraded from postgres 7.4.5 to 8.2.5 a couple weekends ago. I just > turned auto vacuum on today. > > I manually inserted 4 entries in PG_AUTOVACUUM with enabled = 'f' to exclude > these larger tables > That we manually vacuum every night. But the first tables that autovacuum > chooses to vacuum are > > These 4 tables. Am I missing something? My guess is that you set the rest of the settings to 0, particularly for the freeze settings. In that case, try changing them to -1. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin