Jeremy Haile wrote:
>> Also, are other auto-vacuums and auto-analyzes showing up in the
>> pg_stats table? Maybe it's a stats system issue.
>>
>
> No tables have been vacuumed or analyzed today. I had thought that this
> problem was due to my pg_autovacuum changes, but perhaps not. I
> restarted PostgreSQL (in production - yikes) About a minute after being
> restarted, the autovac process fired up.
>
> What could get PG in a state where autovac isn't running? Is there
> anything I should watch to debug or monitor for this problem in the
> future? I wish I'd noticed whether or not the stats collector process
> was running before I restarted.
First off you shouldn't need to restart PG. When it wasn't working did
you ever check the autovacuum_enabled setting? For example within psql:
"show autovacuum;".
I would venture to guess that autovacuum was disabled for some reason.
Perhaps last time you started the server the stats settings weren't enabled?
