From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>
Cc: jody brownell <jody.brownell@q1labs.com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relation
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:17:04 -0400
Message-ID: <9961.1150899424@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150898912.3309.23.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de>
References: <200606211052.43227.jody.brownell@q1labs.com>
<1150898912.3309.23.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de>
Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
>> So, it appears my autovacuum is just NOT working... I must have screwed something up, but I cannot see what.
> Is it possible that you have long running transactions ?
The other question I was wondering about is if autovacuum is actually
choosing to vacuum the target table or not. The only way to check that
in 8.1 is to crank log_min_messages up to DEBUG2 and then trawl through
the postmaster log looking for "autovac" messages.
regards, tom lane
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