Hi, On Friday 30 March 2007 16:43, 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. | 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. you will only see it if it is currently processing your databases. Look at the PostgreSQL log file, if it has entries from autovacuum. Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----