Re: why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Costin Grigoras<costing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running 8.4 and I've tried to disable autovacuum since the vacuuming is
> taken care internally in the code. The same was true with the previous
> version (8.0 to 8.3) and there was never any problem. However now in 8.4 the
> "off" setting seems to be ignored even if "track_counts = off" and huge
> naptime and thresholds are set. For example this is in the logs:

The only thing I can think of is the automatic kickoff of autovacuum
to prevent transaction wraparound.