Re: Excessive vacuum times - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Excessive vacuum times
Date
Msg-id 20051213081615.GF20728@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Excessive vacuum times  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:26:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> No.  Avoiding that would require a new approach to
> >> vacuum-vs-ordinary-indexscan interlocking, so it won't happen until
> >> someone has a Bright Idea (tm).
>
> > Plus there is a TODO to only vacuum pages that are known to have dead
> > tuples, which should hopefully mean no more index-scans during vacuum as
> > well.
>
> No such luck.  You delete any tuples, you need to scan the indexes.

Even though you can see what the index values were for the now-dead
tuple?
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