Re: Reusing Dead Tuples: - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Reusing Dead Tuples:
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Msg-id 8875.1039581335@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Reusing Dead Tuples:  (Janardhan <jana-reddy@mediaring.com.sg>)
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Janardhan <jana-reddy@mediaring.com.sg> writes:
> Does it breaks anythings  by overwriting the dead tuples ?.

Yes.  You cannot do that unless you've first removed index entries
pointing at the dead tuples --- and jumped through the same locking
hoops that lazy vacuum does while removing index entries.
        regards, tom lane


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