Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> What would be really useful is to remove all that noise from vacuum and
> make it appear on a view.
Well, if you want something decoupled from VACUUM there's already
contrib/pg_freespacemap.
> 8.4 material all of this, of course.
I am hoping that we rewrite FSM into the distributed DSM structure
that's been talked about, so that the whole problem goes away in 8.4.
regards, tom lane