Re: Still a bug in the VACUUM ??? !!!

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)stack(dot)net>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Still a bug in the VACUUM ??? !!!
Date: 2003-02-28 20:40:54
Message-ID: 6523.1046464854@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Schmitz <a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de> writes:
> the vacuum seems to be ok. I discovered that the "cluster" kills the
> data for some reason.

Hmm. I'm not sure whether clustering on a GIST index is really useful
(seeing that there's no linear ordering associated with GIST). But it
shouldn't lose data.

I was able to reproduce a problem as follows: run the tsearch regression
test, then do "cluster wowidx on test_txtidx". This appears to lose
one row:

regression=# select count(*) from test_txtidx;
count
-------
502
(1 row)

regression=# cluster wowidx on test_txtidx;
CLUSTER
regression=# select count(*) from test_txtidx;
count
-------
501
(1 row)

Oleg, Teodor, can you investigate this?

regards, tom lane

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