Re: vacuum does not reclaim rows

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum does not reclaim rows
Date: 2003-07-21 04:45:32
Message-ID: 25076.1058762732@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> This might be a stupid question, but why does one backend have to care
> about the global xmin at all? Isn't the local xmin the only important
> value?

Not when it's looking at shared tables.

Do you want to try to make the tqual code aware of whether it's looking
at a shared or nonshared table? I don't honestly think it's worth it...

regards, tom lane

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