Re: vacuum & free space map

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuum & free space map
Date: 2019-08-06 13:50:37
Message-ID: 19687.1565099437@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm not understanding why a vacuum full clears a FSM information while
> a normal vacuum does not. On a table with fillfactor = 50 I've got:

VAC FULL builds a new physical table, which has no FSM to start with.
Possibly, when fillfactor < 100, that's something that should be
created; the decision not to bother is probably older than the
fillfactor knob.

regards, tom lane

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