Jeff Amiel <jamiel@istreamimaging.com> writes:
> On a side note, I am 100% sure that autovacuum was disabled when I brought
> the database back up after the core dump(s). However, minutes after
> restarting, some of my larger tables started getting vacuumed by pgsql user.
> Any way that a vacuum would kick off for a particular table (or series of
> tables) even when autovacuum was off in the postgresql.conf?
Anti-transaction-wraparound vacuums, perhaps?
regards, tom lane