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Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 03:49:33 JSTAngry Sun @mikoto basically this:
> The original version of PostgreSQL from the 1980s did not remove dead tuples. The idea was that keeping all the older versions allowed applications to execute “time-travel” queries to examine the database at a particular point in time (e.g., run a SELECT query on the state of the database as it existed at the end of last week).
It was designed to do this from the beginning.