On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:56, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >> I would appreciate an easy way to keep tabs on autovacuum's activity.
> >> A stat table seems like a practical way to have this info readily
> >> available.
> >>
> >> No need to keep values across dump/reloads, right?
> >>
> >
> > This sounds more and more like a good idea. I don't think there's any
> > need to maintain across dump/reload and / or database restart either.
>
> The DBA can elect to keep or discard stats data across DB restart, in
> fact I think the default value for this GUC var was set to true for the
> 8.1 release.
I thought we were discussing a theoretical / not yet in existence GUC
var...
