On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:11:22PM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote:
> select version()
> "PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3,
> pie-8.7.7.1)"
>
> I am using PG_Autovacuum with postgresql 8.01 and it doesn't seem to be
> doing anything. I've seen it work on other machines where a log item is
> entered each time a table is touched.
>
> I tried starting it with pg_autovacumm -d 1 -U postgres
> (I purposely didn't daemonize it because I wanted to see what it was
> doing) and it showed that it was adding all the tables, but then it just
> sat there for 2 hours without doing anything else.
>
> The stats_collector and stats_row_level are both set to true.
>
>
> Neither the postgresql.log file nor the pg_autovacuum.log file have
> anything about it in them.
Try -d 2; it should give enough info to tell if it's at least checking
tables.
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