Re: postgresql meltdown on PlanetMath.org

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Sutton <chris(at)smoothcorp(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql meltdown on PlanetMath.org
Date: 2003-03-17 19:26:00
Message-ID: 7699.1047929160@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Sutton <chris(at)smoothcorp(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In CVS tip, a whole-database VACUUM VERBOSE gives info about the free
>> space map occupancy, eg
>> INFO: Free space map: 224 relations, 450 pages stored; 3776 total pages needed.
>> Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 KB shared mem.

> How do you get this information?

Before CVS tip, you don't.

[ thinks...] Perhaps we could back-port the FSM changes into 7.3 ...
it would be a larger change than I'd usually consider reasonable for a
stable branch, though. Particularly considering that it would be hard
to call it a bug fix. By any sane definition this is a new feature,
and we have a policy against putting new features in stable branches.

regards, tom lane

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