log_autovacuum = on produces a single line of output from autovacuum,
with additional useful stats. Patch is proving useful in performance
testing. Not sure what is intended on logging for 8.3....
LOG: autovac "public.w" scans:1 pages:197(-0) tuples:2338(-7199) CPU
0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.39 sec
LOG: autovac "public.s" scans:1 pages:1926746(-0)
tuples:37000611(-3461867) CPU 99.74s/53.37u sec elapsed 7977.20 sec
No docs yet, but will do this if accepted.
scans: N number of times indexes have been scanned
pages: remaining(-removed)
tuples: remaining(-removed)
CPU
elapsed
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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com