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Document VACUUM's soft assumption that any LP_DEAD items encountered during pruning will become LP_UNUSED items before VACUUM finishes up. This is integral to the accounting used by VACUUM to generate its final report on the table to the stats collector. It also affects how VACUUM determines which heap pages are truncatable. In both cases VACUUM is concerned with the likely contents of the page in the near future, not the current contents of the page. This state of affairs created the false impression that VACUUM's dead tuple accounting had significant difference with similar accounting used during ANALYZE. There were and are no substantive differences, at least when the soft assumption completely works out. This is far clearer now. Also document cases where things don't quite work out for VACUUM's dead tuple accounting. It's possible that a significant number of LP_DEAD items will be left behind by VACUUM, and won't be recorded as remaining dead tuples in VACUUM's statistics collector report. This behavior dates back to commit |
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