Re: Autovacuum Improvements

From: Glen Parker <glenebob(at)nwlink(dot)com>
To: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum Improvements
Date: 2006-12-19 22:11:41
Message-ID: 4588639D.8040108@nwlink.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> 4) Expose all information used by autovacuum to form its decisions.
>> You could argue that this is already there, although not easy to get at
>> I suppose. But all table threshold settings are available either in the
>> pg_autovacuum relation or the defaults via GUC variables, that plus a
>> little math will get the information autovacuum uses to form its decisions.
>
> No, we currently don't expose the number of dead tuples which autovacuum
> uses.

I'd prefer to get this working somehow before 8.3. In the mean time, is
this information available at all? I assume a c function could get it,
right? Any easier way?

-Glen

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