How do I know whether autovacuum is enabled in PostgreSQL?

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Issue

  • How do I know whether autovacuum is enabled?
  • "autovacuum = on" is commented out in the postgresql.conf. What is the default value, on or off?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • postgresql

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