> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > Sorry for replying to very old message. But... it seems this was not
> > backported to 8.1 or earlier.
> 
> Since it involved a change in the FSM API, it didn't seem reasonable
> to back-patch it.

So for those versions of PostgreSQL the only way to know the
appropriate FSM pages is change FSM-restart postmaster-do vacuum cycle
until vacuum reports the same number of "total page needed"?
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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