Chris Sutton <chris@smoothcorp.com> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In CVS tip, a whole-database VACUUM VERBOSE gives info about the free
>> space map occupancy, eg
>> INFO: Free space map: 224 relations, 450 pages stored; 3776 total pages needed.
>> Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 KB shared mem.
> How do you get this information?
Before CVS tip, you don't.
[ thinks...] Perhaps we could back-port the FSM changes into 7.3 ...
it would be a larger change than I'd usually consider reasonable for a
stable branch, though. Particularly considering that it would be hard
to call it a bug fix. By any sane definition this is a new feature,
and we have a policy against putting new features in stable branches.
regards, tom lane