Recently there have been a couple of very exhaustive and rather technical posts on Planet Postgresql on the topic of bloat. Bloat in short, for those new to Postgres, is an unescapable byproduct of Postgres‘ excellent concurrency-enablement model called MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), that creates new copies of rows when you update data in a concurrent […]
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