Re: pg_stat_activity reporting of VACUUM in 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> looking at a system running 8.1.15
> via a select from pg_stat_activity I see a row where the vcurrent_query =
> 'VACUUM'
>
> I see also that autovacuum is on. Would autovacuum be running a vacuum on the
> entire db? I didn't think autovacuum did that. If not, how do I know in
> version 8.1 what table is being vacuumed? I thought that even in 8.1 the
> current_query column in pg_stat_activity would list the full sql being run as
> opposed to 'VACUUM'.

It might need to run database wide vacuum in case of transaction
wraparound.

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