ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think that this patch is useful to decide when to vacuum.
> It notifies when freespace empties as follows:

No, it doesn't complain that there is no freespace, it complains when
a specific request can't be fulfilled; which for a large request might
not mean much of anything.  I haven't quite worked out what you are
trying to do with the minRequest restriction but I don't think that
really makes things better.  Also, aren't you throwing away remaining
free space in order to prevent the log message from appearing repeatedly?

> $ ./pgbench -n -t 1000
> LOG:  FreeSpace for "public.accounts" becomes empty. (stored=1, avg=159, 
> min=128)
> LOG:  FreeSpace for "public.tellers" becomes empty. (stored=1, avg=238, 
> min=40)
> LOG:  FreeSpace for "public.branches" becomes empty. (stored=1, avg=238, 
> min=36)

A bigger issue is what is the point of logging such a transient
condition --- who's going to read it?  It's possible that autovacuum
would like to know about this, and after we get autovacuum integrated
into the backend I'm sure we'll be taking a look at letting it use FSM
information.  But I can't see that anyone is going to sit and watch
the postmaster log to decide to trigger vacuums.

                        regards, tom lane

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