On Tuesday 16 January 2007 06:29, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> elein wrote:
> > Have you made any consideration of providing feedback on autovacuum to
> > users? Right now we don't even know what tables were vacuumed when and
> > what was reaped. This might actually be another topic.
>
> I'd like to hear other people's opinions on Darcy Buskermolen proposal
> to have a log table, on which we'd register what did we run, at what
> time, how long did it last, how many tuples did it clean, etc. I feel
> having it on the regular text log is useful but it's not good enough.
> Keep in mind that in the future we may want to peek at that collected
> information to be able to take better scheduling decisions (or at least
> inform the DBA that he sucks).
>
> Now, I'd like this to be a VACUUM thing, not autovacuum. That means
> that manually-run vacuums would be logged as well.
Yes I did intend this thought for vacuum, not strictly autovacuum.
