Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum Logging

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Will Reese <wreese(at)rackspace(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum Logging
Date: 2006-04-29 01:54:17
Message-ID: 19021.1146275657@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> If Larry can do the work of getting details added into the stats views, I'm
> comfortable just setting all of the logging to debug1 and leaving it at that.
> I still could see the idea of having a guc for an autovacuum specific log
> control; I could see an admin who first enables autovacuum might want to log
> all its activity for some period of time; but the angle of "need to verify it
> is turned on" goes away with the stats info.

Yeah, there's a lot to be said for that point. I was about to object
that you might not have stats turned on, but if you're running autovac,
I guess you do...

So let's temporarily forget the idea of complicating autovac's logging
code, and instead see if the stats approach will solve the problem.

regards, tom lane

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