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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