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Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running
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Msg-id 18276.1139443585@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running  ("Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>)
Responses Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running  ("Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>)
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"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
> What is the proper way to confirm that the autovacuum daemon
> is running?  I just turned autovacuuming on and don't notice
> another process with ps.

The autovac process doesn't run continuously, so you wouldn't
necessarily see it in ps.  (The postmaster spawns a new one
every autovacuum_naptime seconds.)

            regards, tom lane

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