Re: Autovacuum on by default?

"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:58:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> I think there is a reasonable case for saying that a manual vacuum could
>>> hint pgstat to create the entry instead.
>> 
>> The problem with that is that a simple "VACUUM;" would force pgstat to
>> populate its entire hashtable.

> Maybe a good compromise would be only populating info for tables that
> had dead tuples... that would eliminate any static tables, and most DBAs
> should know that those tables are static.

Hm, that definitely seems like an idea.  Does the current pgstat message
from vacuum tell how many rows it deleted?
        regards, tom lane