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

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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 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?

$ grep -i error Tue.log
$
>
>> 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.

I have no triggers in that database. I do have two sequences.

                  List of relations
 Schema |          Name          |   Type   |  Owner
- --------+------------------------+----------+---------
 public | company_company_id_seq | sequence | jdbeyer
 public | source_source_id_seq   | sequence | jdbeyer

stock=> \d company_company_id_seq
Sequence "public.company_company_id_seq"
    Column     |  Type
- ---------------+---------
 sequence_name | name
 last_value    | bigint
 increment_by  | bigint
 max_value     | bigint
 min_value     | bigint
 cache_value   | bigint
 log_cnt       | bigint
 is_cycled     | boolean
 is_called     | boolean

stock=> \d source_source_id_seq
Sequence "public.source_source_id_seq"
    Column     |  Type
- ---------------+---------
 sequence_name | name
 last_value    | bigint
 increment_by  | bigint
 max_value     | bigint
 min_value     | bigint
 cache_value   | bigint
 log_cnt       | bigint
 is_cycled     | boolean
 is_called     | boolean

but they are not used after the last VACUUM FULL ANALYZE


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