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sgtyesterday at 9:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Not a problem unless your system has busy queue processing 24/7 though, which I bet is pretty rare for most companies.


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atombenderyesterday at 10:33 PM

Not true, unfortunately. The dead tuple build-up can happen in a very short amount of time. I speak from having had to deal with this in a production environment that used the SKIP LOCKED method used in the article.