Re: Vacuum questions...

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum questions...
Date: 2005-09-26 18:08:57
Message-ID: 20050926180857.GN30974@pervasive.com
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:50:14AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> writes:
> > Perhaps VACUUM could send some statistics after each N pages and this
> > would then be available through something similar to pg_statistics
> > table.
>
> Why not just have it send some text to be displayed in the "current
> command" field of pg_stat_activity? The infrastructure is all there
> already for that.

If someone wanted to write a nice interface showing the status of a
vacuum it would be easier if they didn't have to parse a text field...
but *anything* would be a vast improvement over what we have now.

newbie TODO?
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