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Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-11-08T18:05:03Z
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> On 11/4/2004 5:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> autovacuum would probably be a reasonable place to put it.  We don't
>> currently have any good way for autovacuum to get at the information,
>> but I suppose that an integrated autovacuum daemon could do so.

> Don't know why this must be an "integrated" autovacuum. Can't the info 
> about the FSM usage be presented as system views?

No doubt, but that's not free either --- it'd still need supporting
code in the backend.

			regards, tom lane