Comment by tomnipotent
10 hours ago
I believe they were just pointing out that Postgres doesn't do in-place updates, so every update (with or without partitions) is a write followed by marking the previous tuple deleted so it can get vacuumed.
10 hours ago
I believe they were just pointing out that Postgres doesn't do in-place updates, so every update (with or without partitions) is a write followed by marking the previous tuple deleted so it can get vacuumed.
That’s not at all what the child to me was saying in even a generous reading.
But HOT updates are a thing, too.