On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com> wrote:
> No free space becomes visible during long-running vacuums. That means
> bloat keeps accumulating even though vacuum is freeing space, because
> the FSM doesn't expose that free space.
>
> The extra work incurred in those FSM vacuums isn't useless, it's
> preventing bloat in long-running vacuums.
+1.
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