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author | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:31 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:31 +0000 |
commit | 2f2baf929931b66cbb39ef93a3f764792cfe26b6 (patch) | |
tree | 809547eec196ca70964e0d66e5798389140e6297 /src/include/postgres.h | |
parent | a93840e343018241d40560da6b0431c4a8d6571f (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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