Re: Vacuum info clarification

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum info clarification
Date: 2004-11-11 15:59:08
Message-ID: 41938C4C.7040400@fastcrypt.com
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While we are at it

An explanation of what

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mean would be useful.

Dave

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>The last two lines of VACUUM VERBOSE are:
>
> INFO: free space map: 49 relations, 32 pages stored; 784 total pages needed
> DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 182 kB shared memory.
>
>I think "total pages needed" should be "total pages used" or "total
>pages requested".
>
>I am confused about the difference between "stored" and "requested". I
>read the comments in freespace.c but am still confused.
>
>
>

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