Hi all - I am wondering if I can get a consensus on what to do about this minor issue. I have looked through the archives and can't find a definitive answer. So I have a new 8.1 install on Linux (have not yet been able to upgrade to 8.3). The documentation say that autovacuum is enabled by default in 8.1 and sure enough I see messages in the logs that autovacuum is "processing database "postgres"", etc... In my postgresql.conf I see 'autovacuum = on', 'stats_start_collector = on', and 'stats_row_level = on' However, despite all this pgAdmin still gives me messages on certain tables recommending a vacuum to be run. I see some messages saying that you need to run a VACUUM ANALYZE every week or night to 'make sure things are up to date', but then in the commits I see a comment: "Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off." So I am looking for the definitive answer on this. Is pgAdmin wrong and I should ignore the messages? Is autovacuum not fully running? Do they just have different threshold values and pgadmin is a bit pickier? Regards, Collin
