Re: autovacuum daemon question...

Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> I would appreciate an easy way to keep tabs on autovacuum's activity.
>> A stat table seems like a practical way to have this info readily
>> available.
>>
>> No need to keep values across dump/reloads, right?
>>
>
> This sounds more and more like a good idea.  I don't think there's any
> need to maintain across dump/reload and / or database restart either.

The DBA can elect to keep or discard stats data across DB restart, in
fact I think the default value for this GUC var was set to true for the
8.1 release.

Matt