On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Alvaro HerreraIs there any logging of what killed the autovac available? I've looked
<alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe escribió:
>> As some of you folks know I work on some pretty beefy machines. Some
>> of these machines don't see rest for months or days on end. And
>> autovacuum keeps cancelling. I set it more aggressive, it still never
>> finishes.
>
> No matter how heavily updated, regular activity should not cause
> autovacuum kills. Only heavier operations would do that (say ALTER
> TABLE, etc).
and not seen anything (currently on 8.4 moving to 9.2 soon.)
Better logging for that was introduced in 8.4.13 and 9.2.0.
Cheers,
Jeff