Re: Closing inactive connections OR user connections

Scott,

You did a rollback on the transaction, so the delete was never commited.
I hope you aren't expecting vacuum to delete uncommited rows from the
database, are you?

--brian

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:12, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Medi Montaseri wrote:
>
> > Its my understanding that vacuum actually removes tuples that have been
> > updated or deleted.
> > Sort of like emptying your trash .... whence a tuple has been removed,
> > no rollback can set the
> > state back. If you have logically removed a tuple (not vacuumed yet),
> > then one can rollback,
> > but if you vacuum then you can not rollback.
> >
> > Now suppose transaction A decides to delete some tuples, a vacuum job
> > comes along and
> > deletes things (in parallel), trans A decides to rollback....engines who
> > support parallel
> > vacuum-ing and transactions such as PG 7.2 better have a way of
> > protecting themselves
> > against this....
> >
> > Correct me if ...
>
> Yes, you are wrong. Postgresql's vacuuming does NOT free tuples that are
> still in a transaction, hence a full vacuum will hand waiting for the
> transaction to complete or roll back. A normal 7.2 vacuum will simply
> skip the in transaction tuples.
>
> For proof, try this: (Note A> and B> are used to represent two different
> sessions)
>
> A> create table test (a text, id int);
> A> insert into test (a,id) values ('abc',123);
> A> begin;
> A> delete from test where id=123;
> B> vacuum;
> A> rollback;
> A> select * from test;
> a | id
> --------
> abc| 123
>
> Still there.
>
>
> >
> > Neil Conway wrote:
> >
> > >Medi Montaseri <medi(dot)montaseri(at)intransa(dot)com> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I think from the data integrity point of view, vacuum is more
> > >>important than vacuum full.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Why would VACUUM have any effect on data integrity, either positive or
> > >negative?
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Neil
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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