Re: Disappearing Records

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com>, Venki <Venki(at)insoft(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disappearing Records
Date: 2005-11-02 14:46:38
Message-ID: 5445.1130942798@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> The really nasty thing about it is that because the records are now
> considered really old, as soon as you do run VACUUM it'll start
> removing the rows you want to save...

You sure about that? I think VACUUM just tests for "committed or not".

I'm too lazy to set up a test case, but it's possible that VACUUM FREEZE
would resurrect wrapped-around tuples, or could be made to with only a
small code tweak.

regards, tom lane

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