Re: Possible bug in vacuum redo - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible bug in vacuum redo
Date
Msg-id 19580.1009071923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Possible bug in vacuum redo  ("Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
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"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
>> Another thing I am currently looking at is that I do not believe VACUUM
>> handles tuple chain moves correctly.  It only enters the chain-moving
>> logic if it finds a tuple that is in the *middle* of an update chain,
>> ie, both the prior and next tuples still exist. 
>        ^^^^^
> Isn't it *either* not *both* ?

[ reads it again ]  Oh, you're right.

Still, if WAL isn't taking care to maintain t_ctid then we have a
problem.
        regards, tom lane


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