> in 8.2 "naptime" means "time to sleep after we finish a job".  So even
> if the previous task takes an hour, it will still sleep a minute before
> doing another round.  (Note that this setting has a different meaning in
> later releases).

I couldn’t understand the difference in meaning of "autovacuum_naptime" between 
8.2 and later releases from the documentation.  May be I'm not 
understanding/seeing the subtle difference in the documentation lines 
mentioned.  I referred these 3 doc links:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-autovacuum.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-autovacuum.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/runtime-config-autovacuum.html

8.2 doc says "Specifies the delay between activity rounds for the autovacuum 
daemon...."
8.3 & 8.4 doc says "Specifies the minimum delay between autovacuum runs on any 
given database....."

Can you please make me clear on this?

> If autovacuum cannot keep up with all the vacuumable tables, you're in
> trouble and should probably schedule vacuum externally.  (This also
> changed in later releases).

Can you please point me to relevant documentation links on this change?

>> 2. The columns "last_autovaccum" and 'last_autoanalyze" in
>> pg_stat_user_tables shows the start time or end time of the operation?

> End time.
Is there any way to find out the start time of "last_autovaccum" and/or 
'last_autoanalyze" for a given table in 8.2.3?  So that I can isolate the 
tables that are taking too long time to complete vacuum and/or analyze and I 
can perform them externally if need.



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