Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I am doing lots of INSERTs on a table that starts out empty (I did a
> TRUNCATE on it). I am not, AFAIK, doing DELETEs or UPDATEs. Autovacuum is
> on. I moved logging up to debug2 level to see what was going on, and I get
> things like this:
> "vl_as": scanned 3000 of 5296 pages, containing 232944 live rows and 1033
> dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 411224 estimated total rows
> A little later, it says:
> "vl_as": scanned 3000 of 6916 pages, containing 233507 live rows and 493
> dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 538311 estimated total rows
Well, *something* is doing deletes or updates in that table. Better
look a bit harder at your application ...
regards, tom lane
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