Re: Autovacuum on by default?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum on by default?
Date: 2006-08-18 01:01:23
Message-ID: 1265.1155862883@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> How do you figure that? The point of logging what's done is so that you
>> can find out what autovac has been doing, not what it's doing right now.

> I don't think the server logs is the place to record history autovacuum
> activity. I am not saying we might not need that functionality, but not
> in the server logs, and I think others seem to agree.

Um, so what do you think the server log *is* for, if not a historical
activity record? This position would certainly surprise a lot of people
who use the log that way ...

regards, tom lane

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