Hi,

On Friday 30 March 2007 16:43, Carol Walter wrote:
| I ran the command "show autovacuum" and postgres responds with "ON."
| My colleague says that I should be able to see it running if I run ps
| -aef. He said that he doesn't trust postgres reporting on itself.
| When I run the Unix ps command as above I don't see autovacuum. Does
| anyone know if it's running or not? This is on a box running Solaris.

you will only see it if it is currently processing your databases. Look
at the PostgreSQL log file, if it has entries from autovacuum.

Ciao,
Thomas

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