Re: Autovacuum on by default?

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> >>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> and increasing the log level when autovacuum actually fires off a
> >>>>> VACUUM or ANALYZE command. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> This was not done because the logging control only for autovacuum
> >>>> was going to be added.  Right now, if you want to see the vacuum
> >>>> activity, you end up seeing debug stuff too (very ugly).
> >>> 
> >>> Any chance we can make this change before release?  I think it's
> >>> very important to be able to look through the logs and *know* that
> >>> you tables are getting vacuumed or not.
> >> 
> >> Agreed.  I just IM'ed Alvaro and he says pg_stat_activity should now
> >> show exactly what autovacuum is doing (and if it doesn't, let's fix
> >> it). I think that is the best solution to the monitoring problem,
> >> rather than throwing lines in the server logs.
> > 
> > Well, the problem is that it shows what it's *currently* doing, but it
> > doesn't let you know what has happened in the last day or whatever. 
> > It can't answer "has table foo been vacuumed recently?" or "what
> > tables haven't been vacuumed at all during this week?"
> 
> I added last vacuum and last analyze (both auto and manual) dates in the 8.2
> tree.....

Ah, true, I forgot about that.

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