Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Yeb Havinga
Subject Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring
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Msg-id 4EC283BB.2080803@gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 2011-11-15 16:16, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Yeb Havinga<yebhavinga@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I reviewed your patch. I think it is in good shape, my two main remarks
>> (name of n_unremovable_tup and a remark about documentation at the end of
>> this review) are highly subjective and I wouldn't spend time on it unless
>> other people have the same opinion.
> I share your opinion; it's not obvious to me what this means either.
> I guess this is a dumb question, but why don't we remove all the dead
> tuples?
>
The only case I could think of was that a still running repeatable read 
transaction read them before they were deleted and committed by another 
transaction.

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