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authorTom Lane2007-09-16 02:38:02 +0000
committerTom Lane2007-09-16 02:38:02 +0000
commitbe706260f0191f596a3b92baac7791acaa0957bf (patch)
treea27bca86ff9565c1a147b013d9c44135ffd56404 /doc/src
parentcf45f1f4c082abb2f2d7ad967c83ab155f4a9552 (diff)
Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating away
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports.
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