From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>
Cc: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Proper use of Transactions...
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:50:20 +0800
Message-ID: <37AF774C.F2F43D1C@krs.ru> (raw)
References: <23213.934207520@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Even if the backend itself crashes, an uncommitted transaction will
> remain uncommitted, since no entry saying it's committed ever gets
> written to pg_log. Any tuples the dead backend did manage to write out
> will look like not-yet-committed tuples until the end of time.
>
> BTW, I am not sure whether VACUUM ever realizes it can reclaim those
> uncommitted tuples. To do that it'd have to make some kind of
It does.
Vadim
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