Re: Autovacuum / full vacuum (off-topic?)

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>
> I think it's a good idea, but you should take a look at the recently
> added functionality that allows you to investigate the contests of the
> FSM via a user function (this is either in 8.1 or in HEAD; I can't
> remember which).

AFAICS it is still in the patch queue for 8.2.

It's called 'pg_freespacemap' and is available for 8.1/8.0 from the
Pgfoundry 'backports' project:

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/backports

Cheers

Mark