Re: AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
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In response to AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
> 
> > > You mean it is restored in session that is running the transaction ?
> 
> Depends on what you mean with restored. It first reads the heap page,
> sees that it needs an older version and thus reads it from the "rollback segment".

So are whole pages stored in rollback segments or just the modified data
?

Storing whole pages could be very wasteful for tables with small records
that 
are often modified.

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Hannu


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