Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Looking at the autovacuum log output, 
> >>
> >>> 2007-11-13 09:21:19.830 PST 9458  LOG:  automatic vacuum of table
> >>> "specdb.public.txn_log_table": index scans: 1
> >>>         pages: 11 removed, 105 remain
> >>>         tuples: 3147 removed, 40 remain
> >>>         system usage: CPU 0.11s/0.09u sec elapsed 6.02 sec
> >>
> >> it seems like a serious omission that this gives you no hint how many
> >> pages were scanned.
> >
> > Isn't it pages removed + remain? 116 in this case.
> 
> How do 40 tuples take 105 pages?

The first 65 pages could be empty.

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