On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:07:54PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but this would also likely be a 20 line change to vacuum...
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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