On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Jim Nasby <jnasby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/11/13 4:57 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:There is? I didn't know that, can you point me at code?
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jim Nasby <jnasby@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jnasby@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Btree indexes have special code that kill index-tuples when the table-tuple is dead-to-all, so only the first such query after the mass deletion becomes vacuum-eligible should be slow, even if a vacuum is not done. But if there are long running transactions that prevent the dead rows from going out of scope, nothing can be done until those transactions go away.
git grep "kill_prior_tuple"
BTW, I originally had this, even after multiple queries:
Buffers: shared hit=1 read=9476
Then vacuum:
INFO: index "page_hits_raw_pkey" now contains 50343572 row versions in 182800 pages
DETAIL: 3466871 index row versions were removed.
44728 index pages have been deleted, 35256 are currently reusable.
Then...
Buffers: shared hit=1 read=4
So I suspect a vacuum is actually needed...
Hmm. Maybe the kill method doesn't unlink the empty pages from the tree?
Cheers,
Jeff
