Re: log_autovacuum

In response to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:

> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:06 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > > I've tinkered with this patch a bit.  Sample output:
> > >
> > > LOG:  automatic vacuum of table "alvherre.public.foo": index scans: 0
> > >         pages: removed 0, 11226 remain
> > >         tuples: 1300683 removed, 1096236 remain
> > >         system usage: CPU 0.29s/0.38u sec elapsed 2.56 sec
> > >
> > > Please comment.
> >
> > Well, 'tis great except when you have very very frequent autovacuums.
> > That was why I wanted it in 1 log line.
> >
> > Perhaps we need this as an integer, so we can log all vacuums that last
> > for longer in seconds than the setting, 0 logs all. That would
> > significantly reduce the volume if we set it to 5, say. That way you
> > would get your readability and I would get my reasonable size logs.
>
> It kinda smells funny to have a setting like that.  Do we have a
> precedent?  If other people is OK with it, I'll do that.
>
> Would it work to add a separate GUC var to control the minimum autovac
> time?  Also, why do it by time and not by amount of tuples/pages
> removed?

When I submitted the log_temp_files stuff, there was considerable
discussion on the topic of how the GUC vars should be done.  IIRC, the
eventual decision was to have a single GUC var, where -1 equated to
off, 0 equated to log all, and numbers higher than 0 were a size limit
on when things get logged.

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Bill Moran
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