Re: Curious about dead rows.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:53:17AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> that I run only one at a time, or leaving psql running. But as I understand
> it, psql does not bother with transactions, and besides, I normally just do

No, every statement in psql is a transaction. Even SELECT. Every statement
under PostgreSQL runs in a transaction. When you type "SELECT (1)", the
server implicitly adds the BEGIN; and END; around it.

> into my application so that the statistics counters will not count previous
> UPDATEs and ROLLBACKs when the main program that I intend and believe to do
> only INSERTs is running. It will make those statistics easier to read than
> having to subtract previous values to get the changes.

Yes.

> Well, it will not work because I must be superuser (i.e., postgres) to
> execute that, and if I am, I cannot read the input files. I will do it

You could grant superuser status to your user (or just connect as postgres
user) for the time being, while debugging this.

A

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