Re: Vacuum goes worse

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Brian Herlihy <btherl(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au>, Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum goes worse
Date: 2007-10-17 15:56:14
Message-ID: 6849.1192636574@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> What would be really useful is to remove all that noise from vacuum and
> make it appear on a view.

Well, if you want something decoupled from VACUUM there's already
contrib/pg_freespacemap.

> 8.4 material all of this, of course.

I am hoping that we rewrite FSM into the distributed DSM structure
that's been talked about, so that the whole problem goes away in 8.4.

regards, tom lane

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