Mention that tables have a visibility map fork alongside the main fork

and FSM.
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<chapter id="storage">
@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ or index's <firstterm>filenode</> number, which can be found in
main file (aka. main fork), a <firstterm>free space map</> (see
<xref linkend="storage-fsm">) that stores information about free space
available in the relation, is stored in a file named after the filenode
number, with the the <literal>_fsm</> suffix.
number, with the <literal>_fsm</> suffix. Tables also have a visibility map
fork, with the <literal>_vm</> suffix, to track which pages are known to have
no dead tuples and therefore need no vacuuming.
</para>
<caution>