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# disable_auto_discovery

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.Options.disable_auto_discovery"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">property</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">disable\_auto\_discovery</span></span></div>

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      <p>Gets the property indicating whether to disable automatic discovery of backup clusters or worker rank URLs. If set to true, then the GPUdb object will not connect to the database at initialization time, and will only work with the URLs given.</p>
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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.disable_auto_discovery"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">property</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">disable\_auto\_discovery</span></span></div>

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      <p>Returns whether auto-discovery has been disabled.</p>
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