Re: Vacuum statistics

From: chirag(dot)dave(at)gmail(dot)com
To: "Francisco Reyes" <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
Cc: "Pgsql performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum statistics
Date: 2008-05-02 14:09:49
Message-ID: f1d4f3170805020709r378df971y7dc46490a4c7776d@mail.gmail.com
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What version of Postgres you are running ?

If you are using 8.3, you can use pg_stat_all_tables.If Not you can use
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgstattuple.html

Chirag

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
wrote:

> I recall reading posts in the past where one could query the stat tables
> and see how well autovacuum was performing. Not finding the posts.
>
>
> I found this query:
> SELECT relname, relkind, reltuples, relpages FROM pg_class where relkind =
> 'r';
>
> From the output how can I tell the number of dead tuples? Or how effective
> autovacuum is in the particular table..
>
> Recently inheritted several large Postgresql DBs (tables in the hundreds
> of millions and some tables over a billion rows) and I am just starting to
> go over them and see how autovacuum has been performing.
>
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