Re: 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

"Chris Hoover" < revoohc@gmail.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