Re: Help with count(*)

Hannu Krosing wrote:

>Christopher Browne kirjutas R, 14.11.2003 kell 16:13:
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>>Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when mallah@trade-india.com (Rajesh Kumar Mallah) wrote:
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>>>INFO:  "profiles": found 0 removable, 369195 nonremovable row versions in 43423 pages
>>>DETAIL:  246130 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
>>>Nonremovable row versions range from 136 to 2036 bytes long.
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>>It seems as though you have a transaction open that is holding onto a
>>whole lot of old rows.
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>>I have seen this happen somewhat-invisibly when a JDBC connection
>>manager opens transactions for each connection, and then no processing
>>happens to use those connections for a long time.  The open
>>transactions prevent vacuums from doing any good...
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>Can't the backend be made to delay the "real" start of transaction until
>the first query gets executed ?
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That seems counter intuitive doesn't it?  Why write more code in the 
server when the client is the thing that has the problem?

Will