2009/9/15 Ludwik Dylag <ldylag@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello > I have a database where I daily create a table. > Every day it is being inserted with ~3mln rows and each of them is being > updated two times.The process lasts ~24 hours so the db load is the same at > all the time. total size of the table is ~3GB. > My current vacuum settings are: > autovacuum = on > autovacuum_max_workers = 3 > autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 2000000000 (changed from 200000000) > vacuum_freeze_min_age = 100000000 > I have over 250 mln of frozen ids. > # SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database; > datname | age > ------------+----------- > my_database | 256938425 > and every day (since max age exceeded 200mln.) the current table is being > vacuumed two hours after it was created. > My goal is to set the vacuum properties so the current table is not vacuumed > when it is used. And to vacuum it manually one day after it was used. > Is it enough to set > autovacuum=off > autovacuum_freeze_max_age=2000000000 > vacuum_freeze_min_age = 100000000 > and shedule in cron daily vacuum on selected table? How about just disabling autovacuum for that table? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance