Re: Vacuum questions...

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:50:14AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net> writes:
> > Perhaps VACUUM could send some statistics after each N pages and this
> > would then be available through something similar to pg_statistics
> > table.
> 
> Why not just have it send some text to be displayed in the "current
> command" field of pg_stat_activity?  The infrastructure is all there
> already for that.

If someone wanted to write a nice interface showing the status of a
vacuum it would be easier if they didn't have to parse a text field...
but *anything* would be a vast improvement over what we have now.

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