A question about pages. Still not clear

Tom,

I've done more tests. After re-creating a table with just one field
(char(8000)), I inserted 26 records. Look at this:

teste=# select relname, oid, relpages, reltuples from pg_class where oid >=
169982690;
         relname          |    oid    | relpages | reltuples
--------------------------+-----------+----------+-----------
 pg_toast_169982690_index | 169982694 |        1 |         0
 pg_toast_169982690       | 169982692 |        0 |         0
 ix                       | 169982695 |        2 |        26
 t                        | 169982690 |        1 |        26
(4 rows)

Every insert was like this:

insert into t values (repeat('a',8000));

Obviously, there must be some kind of compression (the toast table is empty!).
The main question is:

Is there any way of knowing exactly WHEN there will be a new page allocation?
Is it configurable? How could I inspect compression stuff?

VACUUM FULL VERBOSE did not make any difference.

And, finally, what does it mean: "contrib/pgstattuple/ " (from your last answer)

Best regards,

Eduardo Morelli