Re: Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times

Right, once autovacuum is integrated, then I think vacuum and analyze
should update the autovacuum table this way autovacuum won't redundantly
vacuum tables that were just vacuumed manually.

Jim Buttafuoco wrote:

>But what happens if I go in and manually vacuum a table (either because I just deleted a bunch of records or whatever).
> This is why I think the backend should record the date in pg_class.
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>From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
>To: jim(at)contactbda(dot)com
>Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Sent: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:56:04 -0500
>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times
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>>Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
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>>>Its there a reason postgresql doesn't record vacuum/analyze and dump times in pg_class (or another table). This seems
>>>like it would be a very helpful feature.
>>>
>>>for pg_dump I would add an option --record=YES|NO
>>>for vacuum and analyze I would add a NORECORD|RECORD option
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>For what it's worth, integrated pg_autovacuum will have something like
>>this. At least my initial design does, since the autovacuum daemon
>>needs to know remember when the last time a table was vacuumed.
>>
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