On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:27:53 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What does FSM does then?

FSM = Free Space Map.  VACUUM writes information into the FSM, INSERTs
consult the FSM to find pages with free space for new tuples.

> I was under impression that FSM stores page 
>pointers and vacuum work on FSM information only. In that case, it wouldn't 
>have to waste time to find out which pages to clean.

This has been discussed yesterday here and on -hackers ("Decent VACUUM
(was: Buglist)").  We were talking about inventing a second data
structure: RSM.

Servus
 Manfred

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