Re: Curious about dead rows. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Curious about dead rows.
Date
Msg-id 20071113152111.GG11563@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Curious about dead rows.  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Curious about dead rows.
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Please don't drop the list, as someone else may see something.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:06:13AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> OK. I turned logging from "none" to "mod" and got a gawdawful lot of stuff.

Yes.

> Then I ran it and got all the inserts. Using
> grep -i delete file
> grep -i update file
> grep -i rollback file

How about ERROR?

> 2007-11-13 08:11:20 EST DEBUG:  "vl_ranks": scanned 540 of 540 pages,
> containing 67945 live rows and 554 dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 67945
> estimated total rows

If there are dead rows, something is producing them.  Either INSERT is
firing a trigger that is doing something there (you won't see an UPDATE in
that case), or else something else is causing INSERTs to fail.

A

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