Re: Need help understanding vacuum verbose output - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brad Nicholson
Subject Re: Need help understanding vacuum verbose output
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Msg-id 4C5C31D7.604@ca.afilias.info
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In response to Re: Need help understanding vacuum verbose output  (Gordon Shannon <gordo169@gmail.com>)
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  On 10-08-06 11:45 AM, Gordon Shannon wrote:
> OK, so if it knew that all vacuumable tuples could be found in 492 pages, and
> it scanned only those pages, then how could it be that it reports 16558
> removable tuples from those 492 pages, when it has already reported earlier
> that it removed 45878 tuples -- a number we know in fact to be correct?  How
> could both statements be correct?

It found 45878 dead tuples in 396 pages for the index authors_archive_pkey.

It found 16558 dead tuples in 492 pages for the table authors_archive.

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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.



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