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Postgres MVCC

Index improvements

Heap-only tuples

Suppose r1 is updated to r2, and we have an index.

HOT avoids creating a new index entry if:

  • All index column fields match between r1 and r2.
  • r1 is on the same page as r2.

Without HOT:

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