Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running
Date: 2006-02-09 00:06:25
Message-ID: 18276.1139443585@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> writes:
> What is the proper way to confirm that the autovacuum daemon
> is running? I just turned autovacuuming on and don't notice
> another process with ps.

The autovac process doesn't run continuously, so you wouldn't
necessarily see it in ps. (The postmaster spawns a new one
every autovacuum_naptime seconds.)

regards, tom lane

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