Re: Autovacuum on by default?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum on by default?
Date: 2006-08-18 00:01:00
Message-ID: 200608180001.k7I010U26875@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Agreed. I just IM'ed Alvaro and he says pg_stat_activity should now
> > show exactly what autovacuum is doing (and if it doesn't, let's fix it).
> > I think that is the best solution to the monitoring problem, rather than
> > throwing lines in the server logs.
>
> How do you figure that? The point of logging what's done is so that you
> can find out what autovac has been doing, not what it's doing right now.

I don't think the server logs is the place to record history autovacuum
activity. I am not saying we might not need that functionality, but not
in the server logs, and I think others seem to agree.

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