Ron St-Pierre wrote: > I stopped using autovacuum months ago because of similar problems > (version 8.1.4). Because we do some major inserts and updates about four > times a day, there were a few tables that I didn't want autovacuumed. > Even after I turned autovacuum off for these tables it still tried to > vacuum them while the updates were running. Instead, I just created cron > jobs to vacuum the two tables with the most updates daily, and the one > with the most inserts weekly. Performance has been pretty good. FYI, in 8.2 and up the Xid wraparound problem is considered on a table by table basis, which means that only the tables that have not been vacuumed recently need to be vacuumed. The need for database wide vacuuming is gone. > Time to start VACUUM FULL ANALYZE over the weekend. For Xid wraparound you don't need FULL anyway, in any release. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4 "Find a bug in a program, and fix it, and the program will work today. Show the program how to find and fix a bug, and the program will work forever" (Oliver Silfridge)
