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Old 04-10-2008, 07:26 AM
Carol Walter
 
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Default Re: Auto vacuum

My pg_catalog.pg_autovacuum table contains no entries.

Carol Walter
>
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> Carol Walter wrote:
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> I did as you suggested and the values for autovacuum are null,
>>> therefore I'm guessing it isn't running. Since postgres reports
>>> that
>>> it is running, what other things might keep in from running?

>>
>> Too high thresholds? All tables disabled in pg_autovacuum?
>> naptime set
>> too high?
>>
>> I suggest you turn log_min_messages more verbose, to DEBUG2, and
>> see if
>> there are any entries in there regarding autovacuum. If it's
>> running,
>> you would see it. You would get a message after autovacuum_naptime
>> seconds.
>>
>> How long is autovacuum_naptime anyway?
>>
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