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tomnipotenttoday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

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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snuxolltoday at 8:57 AM

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

But HOT updates are a thing, too.