Re: Postgresql backend to perform vacuum automatically

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nicolas Bazin <nbazin(at)ingenico(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgresql backend to perform vacuum automatically
Date: 2002-03-05 18:06:30
Message-ID: 200203051806.g25I6Uv28927@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Are there tables that track information that would be useful for guiding
> vacuum? Could I write a program which queries some statistical tables and and
> knows which tables need to be vacuumed?
>
> If the info is around, I could whip up something pretty easily, I think.

Sure, Jan's new statistics tables in 7.2 had just that info.

test=> \d pg_stat_user_tables
View "pg_stat_user_tables"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------------+---------+-----------
relid | oid |
relname | name |
seq_scan | bigint |
seq_tup_read | bigint |
idx_scan | numeric |
idx_tup_fetch | numeric |
n_tup_ins | bigint |
n_tup_upd | bigint |
n_tup_del | bigint |

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