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?
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