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author | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:02 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:02 +0000 |
commit | be706260f0191f596a3b92baac7791acaa0957bf (patch) | |
tree | a27bca86ff9565c1a147b013d9c44135ffd56404 /doc/src | |
parent | cf45f1f4c082abb2f2d7ad967c83ab155f4a9552 (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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