Re: Autovacuum on by default?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> 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.

I'm not sure I agree with this.  I can use the pg_stat_activity table to 
see if autovacuum is doing something right now, but what I want to be 
able to do is look through my logs and see that table_foo hasn't been 
vacuumed since last week, or that table_bar has been vacuumed 7 times 
today.  Can I do that just with the stat system alone?