But what happens if I go in and manually vacuum a table (either because I just deleted a bunch of records or whatever). This is why I think the backend should record the date in pg_class.
---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:56:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times > 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 > > > > > > For what it's worth, integrated pg_autovacuum will have something like > this. At least my initial design does, since the autovacuum daemon > needs to know remember when the last time a table was vacuumed. ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org