Re: [7.0.2] INDEX' TUPLES != HEAP' ..

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>>>> Odd .. why is heap reporting 5899, when count() only reports 2951?
>> 
>> Open transactions preventing recently-dead tuples from being reaped?

> nope ... I've tried recreating the indices, no change ... and no change in
> number of tuples ...

That would fit right in: a newly-created index will only index the
tuples that are currently live.  (OK, since an old transaction that
could still see the dead tuples couldn't see the index anyway.)

> actually, since this database is up, there would have
> been zero additions or deletions,

What about UPDATEs?

Given your other comment about a bunch of waiting backends, it sure
sounds like you've got some backend that's sitting on an old open
transaction.
        regards, tom lane