Re: We need to log aborted autovacuums

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Robert,
>
>> Seeing as how there seem to be neither objections nor endorsements,
>> I'm inclined to commit what I proposed more or less as-is.  There
>> remains the issue of what do about the log spam.  Josh Berkus
>> suggested logging it when log_autovacuum_min_duration != -1, which
>> seems like a bit of an abuse of that setting, but it's certainly not
>> worth adding another setting for, and the alternative of logging it
>> at, say, DEBUG2 seems unappealing because you'll then have to turn on
>> logging for a lot of unrelated crap to get this information.  So on
>> balance I think that proposal is perhaps the least of evils.
>
> Wait, which proposal is?

I meant to say that I think the "least evil" proposal is to log at LOG
when log_autovacuum_min_duration != -1.

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