Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> I know there are other plans for 8.4 but I was wondering if those plans
>> appear to be happening or not? I don't want to waste people's time on
>> the patch but if we aren't going to change the FSM stuff for 8.4, I as
>> a DBA would find VACUUM SUMMARY useful.
> I think it would be more useful to move pg_freespacemap from contrib to
> core.
The free space map won't even exist in its current form when 8.4 is
released. (If Heikki doesn't do it then I will...) So I see little
value in expending further effort on the present design.
regards, tom lane