Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?
Date: 2019-04-11 17:26:56
Message-ID: f905f3ea-76fa-bc7b-696b-4eae79f4c506@gmail.com
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On 4/11/19 12:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2019-Apr-11, rihad wrote:
>>> 2019-04-11 19:39:44.450844500   tuples: 19150 removed, 2725811 remain, 465 are dead but not yet removable
>> What Jeff said. This vacuum spent a lot of time, only to remove miserly
>> 19k tuples, but 2.7M dead tuples remained ... probably because you have
>> long-running transactions preventing vacuum from removing them.
> I think you misread it --- I'm pretty sure "N remain" is referring
> to live tuples.

Because "465 are dead but not yet removable" are the dead tuples that remain
instead of 2.7M?

> Maybe we should adjust the wording to make that
> clearer?
>
> regards, tom lane

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