Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> Dave Cramer wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > > Could we first see a cycle of autovac log output with
> > > log_autovacuum_min_duration = 0?
> > > Otherwise we're not going to get closer to understanding why it's
> > > not cleaning up template0 for you.
> >
> > I actually set that last time I restarted. There's nothing particularly
> > interesting there. Is there another log GUC that needs to be tweaked to
> get
> > more output ?
>
> My guess is that autovacuum is skipping the database for some reason, so
> there's no log entry at all.

Seems like a viable explanation, but doesn't advance us any further ?

Dave