But what happens if I go in and manually vacuum a table (either because I just deleted a bunch of records or
whatever).Thisis why I think the backend should record the date in pg_class.
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
To: jim@contactbda.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Sent: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:56:04 -0500
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times
> Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
>
> >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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