PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> writes: > I think the documentation should mention one particular aspect of b-tree > partial indexes: > Say we have a row that satisfy a partial index's predicate. That row will be > referenced by the partial index. Say now that this row gets updated in such > a way that the updated row no longer satisfies the predicate. The entry of > that row in the index (more precisely, the row previous version) is still > kept in a leaf node of the b-tree until a VACUUM is issued on the index's > table.
How is this different from the behavior for any other dead row version? regards, tom lane