Re: free space map - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: free space map
Date
Msg-id 20060620150946.GN26882@surnet.cl
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In response to free space map  ("Chris Hoover" <revoohc@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: free space map  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Chris Hoover wrote:
> Is there anyway to query the free space map and see  how many entries there
> are for a specific table?
>
> We are starting to have some performance issues since our upgrade to
> 8.1(running
> 8.1.3).  However I can vacuum one table and the issues are temporarily
> solved.  I am trying to do some research and would like to know what the fsm
> looks like before and after I vacuum this table.

In CVS HEAD there is a pg_freespacemap contrib module that may do what
you need.  You'd have to "backport" it to 8.1 though; it doesn't compile
as-is.

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