Matthew O'Connor wrote: > Glen Parker wrote: > >If it isn't there somewhere already, I would ask to add: > > > >4) Expose all information used by autovacuum to form its decisions. > > You could argue that this is already there, although not easy to get at > I suppose. But all table threshold settings are available either in the > pg_autovacuum relation or the defaults via GUC variables, that plus a > little math will get the information autovacuum uses to form its decisions. No, we currently don't expose the number of dead tuples which autovacuum uses. > >5) Expose a very easy way to discover autovacuum's opinion about a > >particular table, for example "table_needs_vacuum(oid)", ignoring any > >time constraints that may be in place. > > This might be a nice feature however in the presence of the much talked > about but not yet developed maintenance window concept, I'm not sure how > this should work. That is, during business hours the table doesn't > need vacuuming, but it will when the evening maintenance window opens up. I intend to work on the maintenance window idea for 8.3. I'm not sure if I'll be able to introduce the worker process stuff in there as well. I actually haven't done much design on the stuff so I can't say. Now, if you (Matthew, or Glen as well!) were to work on that it'll be appreciated ;-) and we could team up. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
