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author | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:25 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane | 2007-09-16 02:38:25 +0000 |
commit | 11a8925afd066e80d01f8709c747b20ef6616dbc (patch) | |
tree | ebb864cdc6317e2bbf3c2fba6610d0beb7b170a5 /config/java.m4 | |
parent | 2f2f9b9bae54a09012ab37a8db6fee692d81972f (diff) |
Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating away
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away
pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such
tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have
removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely
race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction
that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial
scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages.
But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that
hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug
reports.
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