Bruce Momjian wrote: > Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: >>>>> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>>>>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> and increasing the log level when autovacuum actually fires off >>>>>>> a VACUUM or ANALYZE command. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This was not done because the logging control only for autovacuum >>>>>> was going to be added. Right now, if you want to see the vacuum >>>>>> activity, you end up seeing debug stuff too (very ugly). >>>>> >>>>> Any chance we can make this change before release? I think it's >>>>> very important to be able to look through the logs and *know* that >>>>> you tables are getting vacuumed or not. >>>> >>>> Agreed. I just IM'ed Alvaro and he says pg_stat_activity should >>>> now show exactly what autovacuum is doing (and if it doesn't, >>>> let's fix it). I think that is the best solution to the monitoring >>>> problem, rather than throwing lines in the server logs. >>> >>> Well, the problem is that it shows what it's *currently* doing, but >>> it doesn't let you know what has happened in the last day or >>> whatever. It can't answer "has table foo been vacuumed recently?" >>> or "what tables haven't been vacuumed at all during this week?" >> >> I added last vacuum and last analyze (both auto and manual) dates in >> the 8.2 tree..... > > Uh, where? I don't see it in pg_class, pg_database, or pg_autovacuum. > Is it somewhere else?
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