Re: Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running

I would be "nice" if vacuum/analyze recorded in a table pg_vacuum (for example) the last time it ran and some stats for
each table

Jim

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From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:31:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Confirming the autovacuum daemon is running

> On 02/08/2006 06:06:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> writes:
> > > What is the proper way to confirm that the autovacuum daemon
> > > is running?
> >
> > The autovac process doesn't run continuously, so you wouldn't
> > necessarily see it in ps.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I suppose then if I really wanted to I could look at frozen
> transaction ids or something.
>
> Considering how important vacuuming is, it might be nice to
> have an entry in the postmaster startup log or something
> that confirms vacuuming is actually happening. Better yet
> something that says that it is _not_ turned
> on, because if it is turned on and things go bad
> I presume that then they'll be an indication in the
> logs. Done that way, when there are vacuum problems,
> regardless of why, there'll always be something in
> the log.
>
> Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
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