Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:16, outsider wrote:
> Hi!
> After an upgrade from postgres 7.3 to postgres 7.4 I see every 5 minutes 
> in the /var/syslog messages like
> ---
> connection: Host=[local] Port=
> user=postgres
> ---
> postgres connects every 5 minutes to each database I have. What is the 
> reason for this behaviour?

pg_autovacuum (from postgresql-contrib) is started by
/etc/init.d/postgresql (if so configured by
/etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf).  It is turned on by default. 

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