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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: gnanam@zoniac.com
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: bnichols@ca.afilias.info
Subject: Re: last_autovacuum & last_autoanalyze showing NULL
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:33:08 -0400
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"Gnanakumar" <gnanam@zoniac.com> writes:
>> Has your Postgres instance crashed or been restarted with immediate mode
>> since the last vacuum? This will cause the autovacuum information to be
>> null. 

> No, it's been up and running for almost a week.  I even checked with "select
> pg_postmaster_start_time()".

I don't believe pg_postmaster_start_time() is reset by a
backend-crash-and-restart sequence ... but the stats collector data will
be.  You might want to look into the postmaster log for evidence of
such a crash.

			regards, tom lane



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