Re: possible vacuum improvement?

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 11:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:
> > 1)Is this sounds like a workable solution?
> 
> Adding a trigger to every tuple update won't do at all.  Storing the
> counts in a table won't do either, as the updates on that table will
> generate a huge amount of wasted space themselves (not to mention
> enough contention to destroy concurrent performance).
> 
> > 4)Is use of threads sounds portable enough?
> 
> Threads are completely out of the question, at least if you have any
> hope of seeing this code get accepted into the core distro.
> 
> 
> For vacuum's purposes all that we really care to know about is the
> number of obsoleted tuples in each table: committed deletes and updates,
> and aborted inserts and updates all count.  Furthermore, we do not need
> or want a 100% reliable solution; approximate counts would be plenty
> good enough.

It would be nice if it could track successful inserts, and fire off an
analyze run when it changes more than 20% from what stats says.