Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > + This means that UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT can trigger space
> > + reclamation, while INSERT ... VALUES cannot because it does not retrieve
> > + a row.
>
> I don't believe that's correct. It might have happened to work that way
> for you in a particular test. It's certainly not something I'd document
> as being intended long-term behavior.
Well, I would like to document something about this because I was
surprised that when INSERT did not trigger a cleanup. I realize we
might change the behavior but then we would update the file too,
hopefully.
How is the attached version using "often"? I also clarified it is < 10%
free.
I found this while doing tests for a new MVCC talk I will be delivering
at PG West.
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+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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is arbitrarily capped at MaxHeapTuplesPerPage (the most tuples that
could fit without HOT pruning).
+ Effectively, space reclamation happens during tuple retrieval when the
+ page is nearly full (<10% free) and a buffer cleanup lock can be
+ acquired. This means that UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT can trigger space
+ reclamation, but often not during INSERT ... VALUES because it does
+ not retrieve a row.
+
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