Excerpts from Brad Nicholson's message of vie ago 06 12:01:27 -0400 2010:
>   On 10-08-06 11:45 AM, Gordon Shannon wrote:
> > OK, so if it knew that all vacuumable tuples could be found in 492 pages, 
> > and
> > it scanned only those pages, then how could it be that it reports 16558
> > removable tuples from those 492 pages, when it has already reported earlier
> > that it removed 45878 tuples -- a number we know in fact to be correct?  How
> > could both statements be correct?
> 
> It found 45878 dead tuples in 396 pages for the index authors_archive_pkey.
> 
> It found 16558 dead tuples in 492 pages for the table authors_archive.

But why did it choose to skip the rest of the pages in authors_archive,
if there certainly are a lot of vacuumable tuples in (some of) them?

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