Re: a fast bloat measurement tool (was Re: Measuring relation free space)

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-09-25T10:10:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
At 2014-09-25 11:41:29 +0200, andres@2ndquadrant.com wrote:
>
> I've not yet followed your premise that you actually need one that
> doesn't set hint bits...

Oh.

All right, then I'll post a version that addresses Amit's other points,
adds a new file/function to pgstattuple, acquires content locks, and
uses HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum, hint-bit setting and all. Maybe I'll
call it not_too_slow_bloat().

Thank you for the feedback.

-- Abhijit