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On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> 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"?

That's the only easy way I know of, but there is something that might  
make life easier if you're using autovacuum... take SELECT sum 
(relpages) FROM pg_class and multiply that by  
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor. If autovac is doing a reasonable job  
of keeping up, that should be a maximum of what you'd need in the FSM.

Hrm... what about adding output to vacuum verbose that indicates how  
many pages in a relation have free space? That would allow something  
like pgfouine to see how many FSM pages were needed. It would also  
make it easier to identify relations that could stand a vacuum full/ 
reindex/cluster (though you'd also want to know something like  
average free space per page).
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• Re: [HACKERS] Re: pgsql: Fix free space map to correctly track the total amount of FSM at 2007-10-02 15:37:36 from Tatsuo Ishii

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