Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007 11:01 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scott Marlowe wrote:
So, between the first and second vacuum you had a long running
transaction that finally ended and let you clean up the dead rows.
No, before 8.3, CLUSTER throws away non-removable dead tuples. So the
long running transaction might still be there.
Wow, good to know. Why would it have changed in 8.3? Was it
considered broken behaviour?
I certainly considered it broken, though it was a known issue all along.
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