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gopalv on Dec 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most a...

> Postgress makes a copy of _every_ row

That's what the zHeap storage engine for Postgres fixes - in-place updates for fixed width data.

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/zheap

hildaman on Dec 5, 2018 [–]

"for eventual integration into PostgreSQL"..

Tostino on Dec 6, 2018 | [–]

And is being actively developed through the mailing list. Feel free to follow the progress. It's great to watch it happen in real time.

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