Re: Autovacuum Daemon is Turned On by Default in Postgres 8.3.8?

I used to execute the VACCUM and ANALYZE commands manually in a Postgres 7.x.x version.
So my question was that I assume that I no longer have to perform those two commands manually anymore.  I just wanted
tobe sure. 
Mary


-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:08 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: Wang, Mary Y
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum Daemon is Turned On by Default in Postgres 8.3.8?

On Wednesday 02 June 2010 5:40:58 pm Wang, Mary Y wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at my log file (see my log file below) and it seems like
> the autovacuum daemon is turned on by default in Postgres 8.3.8.  Does
> that mean that I no longer need to manually invoke the autovacuum
> command anymore?  I used to do it manually in an older version of Postgres.
>
> tail postgresql-2010-06-02_000000.log
> DEBUG:  autovacuum: processing database "template1"
> DEBUG:  server process (PID 31719) exited with exit code 0
> DEBUG:  autovacuum: processing database "marydatabase"
> DEBUG:  server process (PID 31729) exited with exit code 0
> DEBUG:  autovacuum: processing database "postgres"
> DEBUG:  server process (PID 31739) exited with exit code 0
> DEBUG:  autovacuum: processing database "template1"
> DEBUG:  server process (PID 31741) exited with exit code 0
> DEBUG:  autovacuum: processing database "marydatabase"
> DEBUG:  server process (PID 31753) exited with exit code 0
>
> Thanks
> Mary

You talking about manually invoking Vacuum or autovacuum?

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