On 09/20/2013 11:59 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hackers, I've been tinkering with a number of table bloat checks, and it occurred to me that the problm is that these are all approximations based on overall gross statistics, and as such highly inaccurate. It seems like would could have ANALYZE, while sampling from the table, also check the amount of dead space per page and use that as an estimate of the % of dead space overall. We'd still need something else for indexes, but this seems like it would be a good start. No?
I think this is a great idea.
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