Re: WANTED: VACUUM SUMMARY

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WANTED: VACUUM SUMMARY
Date: 2008-04-28 21:41:51
Message-ID: 17796.1209418911@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> I know there are other plans for 8.4 but I was wondering if those plans
>> appear to be happening or not? I don't want to waste people's time on
>> the patch but if we aren't going to change the FSM stuff for 8.4, I as
>> a DBA would find VACUUM SUMMARY useful.

> I think it would be more useful to move pg_freespacemap from contrib to
> core.

The free space map won't even exist in its current form when 8.4 is
released. (If Heikki doesn't do it then I will...) So I see little
value in expending further effort on the present design.

regards, tom lane

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