On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 16:11 -0700, Gordon Shannon wrote:
>
>> So, I guess my real question here is, what happened to the "missing"
>> 100 items? If it was HOT prune, can anyone summarize what that does?
>
> Itagaki already explained that the second DELETE would have removed the
> 100 dead rows you consider to be missing.
>
> Any SQL statement that reads a block can do HOT pruning, if the block is
> otherwise unlocked.
Where does heap_page_prune() get called from in the DELETE path?
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