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.
I wouldn't trust your colleague then ... > 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. It is running. It will only appear on the ps output when it's actually processing a database; after it's done, it'll go away. Check the logs; if autovacuum is getting stuck on something (for example failing to start for some databases), then an error will be logged. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
