Re: autovacuum running even when not set in config?

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>]

Douglas Birdzell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently we noticed this autovacuum process running on one of our db
> servers, which is running pg 8.2.3.
> 
> 2273 ?        Ds     0:00 postgres: autovacuum process fy2006outcomesdb4091
> 
> Autovacuum is off in this machine's config.  I verified that by
> connecting via psql and running 'show autovacuum'.  Also,
> pg_autovacuum on this machine has no rows.

It is normal if the database is in danger of Xid wraparound.  (So now
you know have been neglecting to vacuum some tables).

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