
The Danger of Defaults - A PostgreSQL Story
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Exploring PostgreSQL's Tuple Representation and Vacuum Process
This chapter explores the complex data representation in PostgreSQL where rows are stored as multiple tuples allowing access to older data versions. It also covers the role of vacuum in PostgreSQL, detailing its table and index cleaning functions, with insights into the index cleanup improvements in Postgres 14.
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