Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2019-Apr-11, rihad wrote: >> 2019-04-11 19:39:44.450844500 tuples: 19150 removed, 2725811 remain, 465 are dead but not yet removable > What Jeff said. This vacuum spent a lot of time, only to remove miserly > 19k tuples, but 2.7M dead tuples remained ... probably because you have > long-running transactions preventing vacuum from removing them. I think you misread it --- I'm pretty sure "N remain" is referring to live tuples. Maybe we should adjust the wording to make that clearer? regards, tom lane
