Re: autovac state persistence

["Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@xxxxxxxx>]

Ed L. wrote:
> Does autovac maintain its state/counters across restats as to who 
> need to be vacuumed/analyzed?  Or does killing autovac cause it 
> to reset the counters for the vacuum/analyze threshholds?

Depends on the version.  The contrib autovacuum does not maintain state 
through a restart.  The integrated version (8.0 and 8.1) can maintain 
state as long as you don't have the stat system configured to reset on 
restart.

Matt