Re: Is the database being VACUUMed?

> Well, you have to turn on the stats collector, so you will pay a little
> bit of a performance penalty for that. I doubt you'll notice it unless
> you're really close to the edge. You do have to restart the database to
> enable the stats collector if it's off. The pg_stat_activity stuff is
> pretty essential for debugging problems in the database.

I already have the stats collector on, so that's OK.

And my database is very simple, very much my own research project,
so bouncing it is no problem.

This looks like it will solve my problem nicely. Thanks to all
of you!

Benny

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