Decibel! wrote:

> Hrm... what about adding output to vacuum verbose that indicates how many 
> pages in a relation have free space? That would allow something like 
> pgfouine to see how many FSM pages were needed. It would also make it 
> easier to identify relations that could stand a vacuum full/reindex/cluster 
> (though you'd also want to know something like average free space per 
> page).

Rather than wasting time fixing minor FSM issues, I would favor
rewriting the stuff so that the FSM is disk-spillable.

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