On Saturday, May 2, 2015, Mitu Verma <mitu(dot)verma(at)ericsson(dot)com> wrote:
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> still this delete operation is not working and not a single row has been
> deleted from the table.
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Because of MVCC other sessions are not able to see partial deletions...and
as you aluded to knowing the data itself is not actually removed by a
deletion though a vacuum will eventually allow the same space to be reused
thus deferring the increase in size from future insertions.
David J.