Re: Question regarding autovacuum in 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Question regarding autovacuum in 8.1
Date
Msg-id 20070829155956.GH7911@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Question regarding autovacuum in 8.1  (Denis Gasparin <denis@edistar.com>)
Responses Re: Question regarding autovacuum in 8.1  (Denis Gasparin <denis@edistar.com>)
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Denis Gasparin wrote:
> How is it possibile to check if autovacuum is running in 8.1.x?
>
> "Show Autovacuum" gives me "on" and also i see evidence in logs
> where,autovacuum writes "LOG:  autovacuum: processing database xxxx".

Then it is running.

> However i have no idea of what tables the autovacuum daemon is
> processing because there aren't autovacuum info columns on
> pg_stat_all_tables (as there are for 8.2.x).

For that, you need to change log_min_messages to debug2.

Keep track of the PID of autovacuum from the "processing database"
message and see if you can spot an ERROR message from it.

--
Alvaro Herrera                          Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
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 He arrives precisely when he means to."  (Gandalf, en LoTR FoTR)

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