Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes: > What would be really useful is to remove all that noise from vacuum and > make it appear on a view. Well, if you want something decoupled from VACUUM there's already contrib/pg_freespacemap. > 8.4 material all of this, of course. I am hoping that we rewrite FSM into the distributed DSM structure that's been talked about, so that the whole problem goes away in 8.4. regards, tom lane