"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@xxxxxxxx> writes: > What is the proper way to confirm that the autovacuum daemon > is running? I just turned autovacuuming on and don't notice > another process with ps. The autovac process doesn't run continuously, so you wouldn't necessarily see it in ps. (The postmaster spawns a new one every autovacuum_naptime seconds.) regards, tom lane