Re: Autovacuum on by default?

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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 ...

It is by default for unusual activity. It can be for normal activity
using the proper GUC settings, but we don't have a way to control that
just for autovacuum yet, and given what we have in 8.2, I don't see a
need to add more until users say they need more.

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