Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:35:04 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>
Cc: pgsql performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Curious about dead rows.
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Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Mario Weilguni wrote:

> > Did you rollback some transactions? It will generate dead rows too - at
> > least I think so.
> > 
> No, and the statistics confirm this.

To recap:

- your app only does inserts
- there has been no rollback lately
- there are no updates
- there are no deletes

The only other source of dead rows I can think is triggers ... do you
have any?  (Not necessarily on this table -- perhaps triggers on other
tables can cause updates on this one).

Oh, rolled back COPY can cause dead rows too.

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Alvaro Herrera                               http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
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