"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> What if we just track the amount of potentially dead space in the
> relation
> (somebody had suggested that earlier in the thread) ? Every committed
> UPDATE/DELETE and aborted UPDATE/INSERT would increment
> the dead space. Whenever page fragmentation is repaired, either during
> normal operation or during vacuum, the dead space is reduced by the
> amount of reclaimed space. Autovacuum triggers whenever the percentage
> of dead space increases beyond a threshold.
Doesn't this design completely fail to take index bloat into account?
Repairing heap fragmentation does not reduce the need for VACUUM to work
on the indexes.
regards, tom lane
