Re: Clarification on two bits on VACUUM FULL VERBOSE output

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Clarification on two bits on VACUUM FULL VERBOSE output
Date: 2004-11-12 21:11:33
Message-ID: 200411121311.33769.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> > "There were 33076 unused item pointers."
> > Is this a count of dead index pointers, or something else?
>
> No, it's currently-unused item pointers (a/k/a line pointers) on heap
> pages.  See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/page.html

So this would be a count of pointers whose items had already been moved?

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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