X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD3E3A3FF2; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:05:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68557-10; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163C83A3F7A; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA8I53NB008895; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:05:03 -0500 (EST) To: Jan Wieck Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Justin Clift , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ... In-reply-to: <418FA179.70408@Yahoo.com> References: <20041103155855.O82047@ganymede.hub.org> <41895BDA.1090903@postgresql.org> <20041103201625.S82047@ganymede.hub.org> <19430.1099533223@sss.pgh.pa.us> <418AA915.7010903@postgresql.org> <20041104182322.D21566@ganymede.hub.org> <6789.1099608272@sss.pgh.pa.us> <418FA179.70408@Yahoo.com> Comments: In-reply-to Jan Wieck message dated "Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:40:25 -0500" Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:05:03 -0500 Message-ID: <8894.1099937103@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200411/310 X-Sequence-Number: 60882 Jan Wieck 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