This is what I was thinking about doing. It would be nicer if the system "just did it" for me. I have 100+'s of
databases with 100+'s of tables in each and run pg_autovacuum on them all. I also do nightly dumps and any database
that has been modified (my application keeps track). I was just thinking of using these dates as a check that the
automated processes are working.
Jim
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Jim Buttafuoco <jim@contactbda.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Sent: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:35:21 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
>
> > Its there a reason postgresql doesn't record vacuum/analyze and dump times in pg_class (or another table). This
seems
> > like it would be a very helpful feature.
> >
> > for pg_dump I would add an option --record=YES|NO
> > for vacuum and analyze I would add a NORECORD|RECORD option
>
> You could easily do this in application level:
>
> CREATE TABLE vacuums (relname name, last_vacuum timestamp);
>
> Every time you vacuum, do:
>
> VACUUM foobar; UPDATE dumps set last_dump = now() WHERE relname = 'foobar';
>
> Same for pg_dump.
>
> - Heikki
>
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