Re: monitoring free space map usage without VACUUM

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: monitoring free space map usage without VACUUM
Date: 2008-01-14 16:37:07
Message-ID: 15770.1200328627@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm looking into adding things to the way I monitor pgsql
> installations. One of them was free space map stuff. Is there a way to
> get free space information (especially used free space) without having
> to screen-scrape the output of VACUUM VERBOSE?

In 8.2 there's a contrib/pg_freespacemap module that would help.

regards, tom lane

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