Re: [HACKERS] vacuums and ctid

2004-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could this due the fact that moving that tuple will not > save any storage space ? Yup. VACUUM FULL is not interested in collapsing out unused CTID slots. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

[HACKERS] vacuums and ctid

2004-08-17 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Hi all, looking at how ctid is used is clear to me: insert line (A) in a table; ==> ctid = (0, 1); rollback an update for the line (A); insert a line (B) in the table; ==> ctid = (0, 3); vacuum full; insert a line (C) in the table; ==> ctid = (0, 2); I was expecting this for a normal vacuum