It would seem that way. But if you have ever tried programming with the constraints of an InstallAnywhere installer, you would know why :) On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Armbrust escribió: >> I don't suppose that there is any easy way way that I can stop and/or >> disable the Autovac temporarily for the database that I want to drop. >> >> The only thing that I have seen so far, is that I would have to add >> rows to the pg_autovacuum table for each table in my database, but >> I'm not confident that that would even stop it from accessing the >> database, since it says that even when set to disabled, autovacuum >> will still run to prevent transaction id wraparounds, so it seems that >> it still would make make a quick check into the database that my drop >> command could collide with. > > You seem to want to go to a lot of trouble just to a void a simple retry > loop. > > -- > Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general