Re: Logging autovacuum activity

Sibte Abbas napisał(a):
> On 6/20/07, Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta@wp.pl> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How can I make sure that autovacuum is running, beyond believing that
>> all autovacuum_ settings in
>> postgresql.conf are set correctly?
>>
>> In the 8.1 I could see:
>> LOG:  autovacuum: processing database "test"
>> in the log.
>>
>> But I can't find it in the 8.2.4.
>>
>> I could see some developers discussions about making changes to
>> logging autovacuum activity, however
>> could not track the discussion tight enough to find what the final
>> solution is.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ireneusz Pluta
>>
>>
>
> ps -ef | grep autovacuum.
>
It does not show it. I run freebsd, does it matter?

Anyway, I found that I may enable logging autovacuum messages by setting:

  log_min_messages = debug1

in postgresql.conf

I found it from postgresql-8.2.4/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c, where I read in line 420:

         ereport(DEBUG1,
                 (errmsg("autovacuum: processing database \"%s\"", db->name)));

and this is what the developers were discussing and I did not understand initially.

Sorry for the noise.

Ireneusz Pluta