"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
> What is the proper way to confirm that the autovacuum daemon
> is running? I just turned autovacuuming on and don't notice
> another process with ps.
The autovac process doesn't run continuously, so you wouldn't
necessarily see it in ps. (The postmaster spawns a new one
every autovacuum_naptime seconds.)
regards, tom lane