VACUUM at the Page Level
- In HOT Updates in Postgres we covered page pruning clean up HOT chains, an elegant shortcut where PostgreSQL reclaims dead tuple space during ordinary reads.
- All that without waiting for any background process.
- But pruning is exactly that: a shortcut.
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- In HOT Updates in Postgres we covered page pruning clean up HOT chains, an elegant shortcut where PostgreSQL reclaims dead tuple space during ordinary reads.
- All that without waiting for any background process.
- But pruning is exactly that: a shortcut.
Sources: Boringsql