Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Another weird consequence of this is that it bails out if it finds a
> tuple larger than it can fit in one of the earlier pages; if there's
> dead space to be compacted before that, it's not compacted.
I don't find a lot wrong with that. The code defines its purpose as
being to shorten the table file length. Once it hits a page that
can't be emptied, it cannot shorten the file any further, so why
shouldn't it stop?
regards, tom lane
