Right you are, I'm due to upgrade end of month on this system.
Here I was thinking 8.4. Sorry for the spam. Chris [postg...@pgprd01:~/pgcheck]$ psql Welcome to psql 8.3.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit postgres=# From: schmi...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:42:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Setting a table to be ignored by autovacuum To: d...@archonet.com CC: compuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Introducing Windows® phone. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9708122