Glen Parker wrote:
Erik Jones wrote:Matthew O'Connor wrote:Glen Parker wrote:If it isn't there somewhere already, I would ask to add: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.>Well, what he's saying is, "Not taking into account any time/maintenance windows, does this table need vacuuming?"Correct. IOW, "does it need it?", not "would you actually do it at this time?"...
I understand that, but it's a subjective question. The only question autovacuum answers is "Am I going to vacuum this table now?", so in the current setup you probably could create a function that answers your question, I was just pointing out in the future when maintenance windows get implemented that this question becomes less clear.
