I agree 100%.
---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:15:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Recording vacuum/analyze/dump times > Right, once autovacuum is integrated, then I think vacuum and analyze > should update the autovacuum table this way autovacuum won't redundantly > vacuum tables that were just vacuumed manually. > > Jim Buttafuoco wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster