Re: Autovacuum on by default? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Autovacuum on by default?
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Msg-id 200608171711.k7HHBFP16765@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Autovacuum on by default?  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
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Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> >   
> >> and increasing the log level when autovacuum actually fires off a VACUUM 
> >> or ANALYZE command.
> >>     
> >
> > This was not done because the logging control only for autovacuum was
> > going to be added.  Right now, if you want to see the vacuum activity,
> > you end up seeing debug stuff too (very ugly).
> 
> Any chance we can make this change before release?  I think it's very 
> important to be able to look through the logs and *know* that you tables 
> are getting vacuumed or not.

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.

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