I configured a new development-server from scratch and there postgresql-8.0.0beta3.ebuild didn't install a pg_autovacuum init script. It was planned to integrate autovacuum support into postgresql 8.0series backend but time ran out and it didn't make it into this release. Therefore pg_autovacuum is still useful and a init-script should be installed. As a workaround I simply copied the init-script from v7.4: /usr/portage/dev-db/postgresql/files/pg_autovacuum.init-7.4.5 to /etc/init.d/pg_autovacuum and copied the config from: /usr/portage/dev-db/postgresql/files/pg_autovacuum.conf-7.4.5 to /etc/conf.d/pg_autovacuum Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
fixed. Thank you for reporting.