Re: autovacuum daemon question...

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:56, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>>>> I would appreciate an easy way to keep tabs on autovacuum's activity.
>>>> A stat table seems like a practical way to have this info readily
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>>> No need to keep values across dump/reloads, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This sounds more and more like a good idea.  I don't think there's any
>>> need to maintain across dump/reload and / or database restart either.
>>>
>> The DBA can elect to keep or discard stats data across DB restart, in
>> fact I think the default value for this GUC var was set to true for the
>> 8.1 release.
>>
>
> I thought we were discussing a theoretical / not yet in existence GUC
> var...

I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you were talking about maintaining
the data in the theoretical / not yet in existence autovacuum stats
table through database restart, the stats system already has a GUC var
that dictates whether or not it dumps it's data upon DB restart.

Matt