Re: 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

Are there any plans to fix this so we can see atleast the table activity (
i.e. vacuuming table x) any time soon?

Thanks,

Chris

On 6/26/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I turned on autovacuum on one of my database servers over the
> weekend. I
> > have been looking at the logs trying to see what it is doing. However,
> all
> > I see are lines like this:
> > ,7674,,2006-06-26 16:31:37.650 EDT,,1,,,,LOG: autovacuum: processing
> > database "postgres"
> > Is there a way to tell if autovacuum is actually doing any work? As far
> as
> > I can see, it is running, but has not done any work.
>
> I think that's all you'll see at the default logging level. There are
> per-table messages at DEBUG2 level ... which will enable a whole lot of
> other chatter as well :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
>