Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> There *is* an elog(DEBUG3) in autovacuum.c
>> that reports whether autovac thinks a table needs vacuumed/analyzed ...
>> maybe that needs to be a tad more user-accessible.
> Yeah, it would be really good to be able to log that without bumping the
> log levels of the server in general to DEBUG3. On a busy production
> server, using any of the DEBUG levels is pretty much out of the question
> ... they can produce up to 1GB/minute in output.
Well, the way to deal with that would be to add a GUC that enables
reporting of those messages at LOG level. But it's a bit hard to argue
that we need such a thing without more evidence. Maybe you could just
locally modify the DEBUG3 to LOG and see whether it teaches you
anything?
regards, tom lane
