[HACKERS] FSM fill ratio

2008-04-25 Thread Jacques Caron
Hi all, Quick question: is there currently a way to see how many slot are used in the FSM (i.e. how many free pages are stored there), or how many are free? If not, wouldn't it be a good idea to add this somewhere? (Don't quite know where... is it possible to have very dynamic values in show

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum_freeze_max_age

2007-11-10 Thread Jacques Caron
Hi Tom, At 02:51 10/11/2007, Tom Lane wrote: Uh, no, it's called only when we've advanced datfrozenxid, which is a pretty uncommon event. So I think the real hole in the proposal is that there would be a long and not-very-predictable delay between changing the parameter and having it really tak

[HACKERS] autovacuum_freeze_max_age

2007-11-09 Thread Jacques Caron
Hi, I was wondering why autovacuum_freeze_max_age actually can't be set at runtime... guc.c points to varsup.c which says: * Note: autovacuum_freeze_max_age is a PGC_POSTMASTER parameter so that * we don't have to worry about dealing with on-the-fly changes in its

[HACKERS] pg_statistic "forced" values

2007-11-07 Thread Jacques Caron
Hi, It is well known that in some instances the Postgresql will make estimates of the number of distinct values in a table that can be quite far off reality. This then has a tendency to make the planner lean towards unsavory plans (read: seqscans) because it estimates the number of lines retu