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Heikki Linnakangas authored
heap page, where a set bit indicates that all tuples on the page are visible to all transactions, and the page therefore doesn't need vacuuming. It is stored in a new relation fork. Lazy vacuum uses the visibility map to skip pages that don't need vacuuming. Vacuum is also responsible for setting the bits in the map. In the future, this can hopefully be used to implement index-only-scans, but we can't currently guarantee that the visibility map is always 100% up-to-date. In addition to the visibility map, there's a new PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag on each heap page, also indicating that all tuples on the page are visible to all transactions. It's important that this flag is kept up-to-date. It is also used to skip visibility tests in sequential scans, which gives a small performance gain on seqscans.
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