Re: log_autovacuum_min_duration doesn't log VACUUMs

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2/10/17 03:38, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I guess its fairly obvious in the title, but
> > log_autovacuum_min_duration doesn't log VACUUMs only autovacuums.
> >
> > What isn't obvious is why that restruction is useful.
>
> Because there are already various tools available to log activity of
> session processes, but there are no other ways to log the activity of
> autovacuum. Why are the existing settings not sufficient for this purpose?
>

I've pretty often been annoyed that the information provided by 'VACUUM
VERBOSE' and the information provided by log_autovacuum_min_duration are so
drastically different from each other. It would be pretty nice to have
some way to get the same information for both operations in the same
format, although I don't know if this proposal is the best way of
accomplishing it.

Cheers,

Jeff