I've run into a performance issue, and I think autovacuum may be involved. does anyone know if its possible to temporarily stop autovacuum without a server restart ? It seems that it either requires a server restart, or specific tables to be configured. Several times a day/week, I run a handful of scripts to handle database maintenance and backups: * refreshing materialized views * calculating analytics/derived/summary tables and columns * backing up the database (pg_dumpall > bz2 > archiving) These activities have occasionally overlapped with autovacuum, and the performance seems to be affected. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general