Re: Autovacuum Logging

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 11:59, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Well, one problem now is that everytime pg_autovacuum opens a
>> database, a message is placed in the logs:
>>
>> LOG: autovacuum: processing database "test"
>> LOG: autovacuum: processing database "test"
>> LOG: autovacuum: processing database "test"
>> LOG: autovacuum: processing database "test"
>>
>> This is certainly not desirable. I changed the message to DEBUG1 for
>> 8.2 with the attached patch.
>
> IMHO this is less optimal, since the default installation will
> provide no way for users to verify that autovacuum is running.
> Currently we can direct them to look in thier log output, this way we
> would have to tell them to crank up logging to DEBUG1 and then look,
> which will of course contain a whole lot of other chatter at that
> level.
>
> The best solution I have seen so far is the idea of a GUC to control
> autovacuums chatter level. I hope we get that becuase the above will
> be a regression imho.

I've put a basic proposal out to -hackers, and have the time and
inclination
to do it.

Comments requested, please.

LER

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