On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Say what? A heap deletion compacts the page --- it will certainly fail
>>> badly on torn-page.
>
>> What do you mean by "compacts the page"? I would interpret that to
>> mean "reclaims the space formerly used by the tuple being deleted",
>> but it certainly can't do that.
>
> Oh, I'm sorry, I was confusing the case with vacuum cleanup. Obviously
> hadn't consumed any caffeine yet. Nevermind ...
OK. You had me worried for a minute there. :-)
Any substantive comments, besides the obvious "this is not 9.1 material"?
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