I'm seeing a heavy-update TOAST table which is not being effectively autovacuum'd on 8.4.5. The stats collector shows
n_dead_tupgrowing very quickly, and autovacuum runs frequently, but never removes any dead tuples. A manual vacuum
doesfind many dead tuples (90+ % of the table) to remove, and removes them properly.
Whilst debugging, I found that there seems to be a large amount of the old 'PD_ALL_VISIBLE incorrectly set...' warnings
emittedduring the autovacuum run.
My immediate assumption was that PD_ALL_VISIBLE is set on the page, and so autovacuum skips it. However, from what I
cansee in lazy_scan_heap(), all of the clean-up actually happens before we even check the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag and emit
thiswarning. Can anyone confirm that this is a warning message only, and shouldn't actually cause autovacuum to skip
pruningdead tuples?
Am I seeing two different or related issues here?
Thanks,
Tom
p.s. I'm aware there was a change to PD_ALL_VISIBLE in 8.4.8 but that was to stop warning on a non-issue, so I don't
believeit's the same.