Michael Crozier wrote:
> I think I see now, "dead" tuples are the tuples that have yet to be
> reclaimed
> by vacuum, not tuples that are ready to be used. I'm still rather
> confused,
> as this table is only modified via inserts. No deletes or update
> operations
> are ever performed. Logically (ie "I don't really know the truth")
> this
> table should have no free tuples or free space except for the
> remainder of
> the last allocated page.
I suspect that if a transaction rolls back, any inserts done in the
interim turn into dead tuples.
- John Burger
MITRE