Re: determining which table is being vacuumed by autovacuum (SOLVED)

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 22:10:05 Tom Lane wrote:
> Kevin Kempter <kevin(at)kevinkempterllc(dot)com> writes:
> > Then I ran this:
> >
> > postgres=# select relation from pg_locks where pid = 9902;
> > relation
> > -----------
> > 82097999
> > 143763216
> > 143763215
> > 143763193
> > 143763193
> > 143763217
> > (7 rows)
> >
> > However none of these seem to have a corresponding pg_class oid, see
> > the below queries:
>
> This most likely means that the vacuum is happening in a different
> database than you are looking in. Did you check
> pg_stat_activity.datname?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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I sent this once but it never showed up on the list, so just to make sure it
gets into the archives here it is again:

All;

I had a brain-dead moment (user-error). It turns out that the above queries do
work fine when they're both run against the same database.