Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > > 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? > > Actually Larry just reminded us that you can use pg_stat_all_tables to > see that information. However I'm testing it and it doesn't seem to > work for all tables ... strange. I'll have a look.
Nevermind -- it's just that if you vacuum a table which you haven't touched (insert, update, delete) since the last stats reset, then the vacuum info isn't recorded because we refuse to create the pgstat entry for the table. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
