Re: 8.1.3 - autovacuum question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Chris Hoover
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In response to Re: 8.1.3 - autovacuum question  ("Jim C. Nasby" <[email protected]>)
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Any chance of a backport to 8.1?  It sure would be a big help to be able to see what autvacuum is doing and to make sure that life is happy that way.

Thanks,

Chris

On 6/28/06, Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, and I belive they're in HEAD now.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:49:25PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Are there any plans to fix this so we can see atleast the table activity (
> i.e. vacuuming table x) any time soon?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> On 6/26/06, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >"Chris Hoover" < [email protected]> writes:
> >> I turned on autovacuum on one of my database servers over the
> >weekend.  I
> >> have been looking at the logs trying to see what it is doing.  However,
> >all
> >> I see are lines like this:
> >> ,7674,,2006-06-26 16:31:37.650 EDT,,1,,,,LOG:  autovacuum: processing
> >> database "postgres"
> >> Is there a way to tell if autovacuum is actually doing any work?  As far
> >as
> >> I can see, it is running, but has not done any work.
> >
> >I think that's all you'll see at the default logging level.  There are
> >per-table messages at DEBUG2 level ... which will enable a whole lot of
> >other chatter as well :-(
> >
> >                        regards, tom lane
> >

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