On 2019-Apr-11, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2019-Apr-11, rihad wrote:
> >> 2019-04-11 19:39:44.450844500   tuples: 19150 removed, 2725811 remain, 465 
> >> are dead but not yet removable
> 
> > What Jeff said.  This vacuum spent a lot of time, only to remove miserly
> > 19k tuples, but 2.7M dead tuples remained ... probably because you have
> > long-running transactions preventing vacuum from removing them.
> 
> I think you misread it --- I'm pretty sure "N remain" is referring
> to live tuples.  Maybe we should adjust the wording to make that
> clearer?

Oh, I've been confused with that many times,  Not good trying to decode
confusing messages while simultaneously figuring out trying to figure
out logical decoding bugs that have already been fixed :-(

Yeah, let's reword that.  I've had to read the source half a dozen times
because I always forget what each number means.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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