In response to "Medora Schauer" <mschauer@fairfield.com>:
> I've recently moved to 8.1 and find that autovacuum doesn't seem to be
> working, at least not the way I expected it to. I need the tuple count
> for a table to be updated so indexes will be used when appropriate. I
> was expecting the tuples count for a table to be updated after
> autovacuum ran. This doesn't seem to be the case. I added 511 records
> to a previously empty table and waited over an hour. Tuples for the
> table (as per pgaccess) was 0. After I did a manual vacuum analyze it
> went to 511.
From your attached config file:
#autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 1000 # min # of tuple updates before
# vacuum
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.