Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.
Date: 2013-06-19 09:15:14
Message-ID: 20130619091514.GA6177@awork2.anarazel.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2013-06-19 10:03:40 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 19 June 2013 09:19, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
> > It should useful in other aspects but it seems a bit complicated
> > just to know about visibility bits for certain blocks.
>
> With your current patch you can only see the visibility info for
> blocks in cache, not for all blocks. So while you may think it is
> useful, it is also unnecessarily limited in scope.

pg_freespace should do more than that? Are you thinking of
pg_buffercache?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

--
Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Simon Riggs 2013-06-19 09:27:57 Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.
Previous Message Simon Riggs 2013-06-19 09:03:40 Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.