Brad Nicholson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 16:39 +0200, Michal Taborsky - Internet Mall > wrote: > > I just put together a view, which helps us in indentifying which > > database tables are suffering from space bloat, ie. they take up much > > more space than they actually should. I though this might be useful for > > some folk here, because the questions about bloat-related performance > > degradation are quite common. > > Are you sure you haven't reinvented the wheel? Have you checked out > contrib/pgstattuple ?
Actually, pgstattuple needs to scan the whole table, so I think having a cheap workaround that gives approximate figures is a good idea anyway. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
