Re: We need to log aborted autovacuums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: We need to log aborted autovacuums
Date
Msg-id 1290030940.10258.7188.camel@jd-desktop
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In response to We need to log aborted autovacuums  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:46 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hackers,
> 
> I've been trying to diagnose in a production database why certain tables
> never get autovacuumed despite having a substantial % of updates.  The
> obvious reason is locks blocking autovacuum from vacuuming the table ...
> but the trick is we don't log such blocking behavior, at all.  This
> means that there is no possible way for a user to figure out *why* his
> tables aren't getting autovacuumed.

Yes we do log this.

JD

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