autovacuum? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jesper Krogh
Subject autovacuum?
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Msg-id 4807A9A1.9040806@krogh.cc
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Responses Re: autovacuum?  ("Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
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Hi.

I have a mostly insert/select database, so vacumming is generally not
much needed.. but among the tables I have one which is used as a
message-queue so a lot of insert/updates/deletes on small simple records
on that one.

How do I check that autovacumm is running at all? (I think i have
enabled it in /etc/postgresql/8.2/*/postgresql.conf ).

select relname,last_autovacuum,last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_user_tables
where relname = 'job';
  relname |        last_autovacuum        |       last_autoanalyze
---------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------
  job     | 2008-04-16 07:19:24.832413+02 | 2008-04-17 01:40:05.242914+02


So it seems to be running. But shouldn't it hit the table a lot more?
How do I check that it is somehow near optimal?


--
Jesper

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