Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Lewis
Subject Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?
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In response to Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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> 2019-04-11 19:39:44.450844500   tuples: 19150 removed, 2725811 remain, 465 are dead but not yet removable

What Jeff said.  This vacuum spent a lot of time, only to remove miserly
19k tuples, but 2.7M dead tuples remained ... probably because you have
long-running transactions preventing vacuum from removing them.  Maybe
that was pg_dump.

Wouldn't "dead but not yet removable" be high if there were long running transactions holding onto old row versions?

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