Re: Setting a table to be ignored by autovacuum

[Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 18/02/10 17:20, Chris Barnes wrote:

I'm trying to have this table ignored by the autovacuum process.

It wasn't created with this in mind, hoping there is still a way?

alter table schema.table SET (autovacuum_enabled = false);

ERROR:  unrecognized parameter "autovacuum_enabled"

Close, but it's classed under storage parameters. You'll want to see the SQL reference entry for "CREATE TABLE".

Hrmm.. I think the OP's syntax is correct, but he's probably using a version older than 8.4, when support for per-table autovacuum_enabled was added. 

On HEAD:

test=# CREATE TABLE foo (a int);
CREATE TABLE
test=# alter table foo SET ( autovacuum_enabled=false) ;
ALTER TABLE
test=# \d+ foo
                  Table "public.foo"
 Column |  Type   | Modifiers | Storage | Description 

--------+---------+-----------+---------+-------------
 a      | integer |           | plain   | 
Has OIDs: no
Options: autovacuum_enabled=false


 Josh