On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?
zip ... only SELECTs right now ... no facility there to do updates,
deletes or inserts ...
> 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.
last email about waiting was a different database ... will *that* affect
this? :(