Re: AutoVacuum Daemon

On 30 December 2013 19:11 Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> Hi, I want know if I should run the auto-vacuum daemon (from
> /etc/init.d/) or it runs automatically and transparently if configured
> in postgres.conf?. If it must be configured manually, what is the
> script to be run, I didn't find pg_autovacuum or similar.
>
> I didn't find information about this on this page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/routine-
> vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM
>
> P.S.: I'm on linux running PostgreSql 8.4

Just enable "autovacuum" configuration parameter in postgresql.conf file.
Which internally spawns an autovacuum process which will take care of vacuuming.


Regards,
Hari babu.