On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >> I don't follow you here. Why would REINDEXing make the rows that >> should be dead disappear again, even for a short period of time? > > It's not the REINDEX that makes them reappear.
Of course. I was just trying to make sense of what you said. > It's the second > vacuum. The reindex part was about $user trying to fix the problem... > As you need two vacuums with appropriate cutoffs to hit the "rows > revive" problem, that'll often in practice not happen immediately. This explanation clears things up, though. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list (pgsql-committers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
