Thanks Alvaro - did as you suggested and looks to be working better Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Visit our new website at www.autorevenue.com IMPORTANT: The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential and is intended only for the named addressee(s). If the reader of this e-mail message is not the intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this e-mail message to the intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please reply to the sender that you have received this e-mail message in error and then delete it. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:58 AM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: auto_vacuum question 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
