Robert Haas wrote:
> Old row versions have to be kept around until they're no longer of
> interest to any still-running transaction.
Thanks for the explanation.
Regarding the snippet above, why would the intermediate history of
multiply-modified uncommitted rows be of interest to anything, or is the
current behaviour simply "cheaper" overall in terms of cpu/developer time?
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