Re: [INTERFACES] Proper use of Transactions... - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Vadim Mikheev
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] Proper use of Transactions...
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In response to Re: [INTERFACES] Proper use of Transactions...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Even if the backend itself crashes, an uncommitted transaction will
> remain uncommitted, since no entry saying it's committed ever gets
> written to pg_log.  Any tuples the dead backend did manage to write out
> will look like not-yet-committed tuples until the end of time.
> 
> BTW, I am not sure whether VACUUM ever realizes it can reclaim those
> uncommitted tuples.  To do that it'd have to make some kind of

It does.

Vadim


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