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From: Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: autovacuum question
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:59:41 +0200
Message-ID: <200703301659.41322.mlists@rp-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDBC231C-B790-4F75-A798-764ECA1E123E@indiana.edu>
References: <EDBC231C-B790-4F75-A798-764ECA1E123E@indiana.edu>

Hi,

On Friday 30 March 2007 16:43, Carol Walter wrote:
| I ran the command "show autovacuum" and postgres responds with "ON."
| My colleague says that I should be able to see it running if I run ps
| -aef.  He said that he doesn't trust postgres reporting on itself.
| When I run the Unix ps command as above I don't see autovacuum.  Does
| anyone know if it's running or not?  This is on a box running Solaris.

you will only see it if it is currently processing your databases. Look
at the PostgreSQL log file, if it has entries from autovacuum.

Ciao,
Thomas

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