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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.

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snuxoll  5 hours ago

That’s not at all what the child to me was saying in even a generous reading.

But HOT updates are a thing, too.

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