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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Curious about dead rows.
Date
Msg-id 20071114213504.GW19014@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Curious about dead rows.  (Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>)
Responses Re: Curious about dead rows.  (Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>)
Re: Curious about dead rows.  (Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>)
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Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Mario Weilguni wrote:

> > Did you rollback some transactions? It will generate dead rows too - at
> > least I think so.
> >
> No, and the statistics confirm this.

To recap:

- your app only does inserts
- there has been no rollback lately
- there are no updates
- there are no deletes

The only other source of dead rows I can think is triggers ... do you
have any?  (Not necessarily on this table -- perhaps triggers on other
tables can cause updates on this one).

Oh, rolled back COPY can cause dead rows too.

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Alvaro Herrera                               http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
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