On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:56:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Noah Misch's message of vie ene 20 22:33:30 -0300 2012: > > pgstattuple() figures the free_percent by adding up all space available to > > hold tuples and dividing that by the simple size of the relation. Non-leaf > > pages and the meta page get identical treatment: both never hold tuples, so > > they do not contribute to the free space. > > Hm. Leaf pages hold as much tuples as non-leaf pages, no? I mean > for each page element there's a value and a CTID. In non-leaf those > CTIDs point to other index pages, one level down the tree; in leaf pages > they point to the heap.
That distinction seemed important when I sent my last message, but now I agree that it's largely irrelevant for free space purposes. If someone feels like doing it, +1 for making pgstattuple() count non-leaf free space. Thanks, nm -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers