Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:43:28 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Brian Herlihy <btherl@yahoo.com.au>,
	Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum goes worse
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:03:39 -0700 (PDT)
> Brian Herlihy <btherl@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Would it make sense to show the FSM stats for individual table
> > vaccums as well?  I'm wondering if the reason they aren't shown is
> > because it wouldn't be useful or isn't practical, or just that it
> > hasn't been done.
> 
> I am not sure how useful it would be as the FSM is global. However what
> would be useful is something like VACUUM SUMMARY, where I could get
> "just" the stats instead of all the other output that comes along with
> VERBOSE.

What would be really useful is to remove all that noise from vacuum and
make it appear on a view.  8.4 material all of this, of course.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                 http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4
"Estoy de acuerdo contigo en que la verdad absoluta no existe...
El problema es que la mentira sí existe y tu estás mintiendo" (G. Lama)