On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Just set autovacuum = off in postgresql.conf and reload and it's off. -- When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in a flag and carrying a cross - Sinclair Lewis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
