On Tuesday 16 January 2007 06:29, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > elein wrote: > > Have you made any consideration of providing feedback on autovacuum to > > users? Right now we don't even know what tables were vacuumed when and > > what was reaped. This might actually be another topic. > > I'd like to hear other people's opinions on Darcy Buskermolen proposal > to have a log table, on which we'd register what did we run, at what > time, how long did it last, how many tuples did it clean, etc. I feel > having it on the regular text log is useful but it's not good enough. > Keep in mind that in the future we may want to peek at that collected > information to be able to take better scheduling decisions (or at least > inform the DBA that he sucks). > > Now, I'd like this to be a VACUUM thing, not autovacuum. That means > that manually-run vacuums would be logged as well. Yes I did intend this thought for vacuum, not strictly autovacuum.