Re: 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

Any chance of a backport to 8.1? It sure would be a big help to be able to
see what autvacuum is doing and to make sure that life is happy that way.

Thanks,

Chris

On 6/28/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Yes, and I belive they're in HEAD now.
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:49:25PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
> > 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
> > >
>
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