Re: Logging autovacuum activity

You can also use the following query to check the autovacuum activity:

select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from
"pg_catalog"."pg_stat_all_tables"

--
Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 6/20/07, Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta(at)wp(dot)pl> wrote:
>
>
>
> Sibte Abbas napisał(a):
> > On 6/20/07, Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta(at)wp(dot)pl> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> How can I make sure that autovacuum is running, beyond believing that
> >> all autovacuum_ settings in
> >> postgresql.conf are set correctly?
> >>
> >> In the 8.1 I could see:
> >> LOG: autovacuum: processing database "test"
> >> in the log.
> >>
> >> But I can't find it in the 8.2.4.
> >>
> >> I could see some developers discussions about making changes to
> >> logging autovacuum activity, however
> >> could not track the discussion tight enough to find what the final
> >> solution is.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Ireneusz Pluta
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ps -ef | grep autovacuum.
> >
> It does not show it. I run freebsd, does it matter?
>
> Anyway, I found that I may enable logging autovacuum messages by setting:
>
> log_min_messages = debug1
>
> in postgresql.conf
>
> I found it from postgresql-8.2.4/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c,
> where I read in line 420:
>
> ereport(DEBUG1,
> (errmsg("autovacuum: processing database \"%s\"",
> db->name)));
>
> and this is what the developers were discussing and I did not understand
> initially.
>
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> Ireneusz Pluta
>
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