> > > The point is, that the heap page is only modified in 
> > > places that were previously empty (except header).
> > > All previous row data stays exactly in the same place.
> > > Thus if a page is only partly written
> > > (any order of page segments) only a new row is affected.
> > 
> > Exception: PageRepairFragmentation() and PageIndexTupleDelete() are
> > called during vacuum - they change layout of tuples.
> >
> 
> Is it guaranteed that the result of PageRepairFragmentation()
> has already been written to disk when tuple movement is logged ?

No.

Vadim

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:48:14 -0800
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: heap page corruption not easy