On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:04:56PM +0800, Hank Hsiung wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am using Postgresql version 8.1. It has been announced that in this version, autovacuum is no longer a seperate process and is integrated into postgres. However, I can't tell if my database has autovacuumed. I've turned on the configurations in the autovacuum section in postgresql.conf. What else should I do to make it happen?

If you look in your logs, you should see something like:
May 17 13:24:49 fritz postgres[13852]: [3-1] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "postgres"

Though, that probably depends on your logging settings.
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