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no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports. |
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