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less than 20% free space on the page after the insert/update (not on HOT
updates, though). The 20% cutoff should avoid most of the overhead, when
replaying a bulk insertion, for example, while ensuring that pages that
are full are marked as full in the FSM.

This is mostly to avoid the nasty worst case scenario, where you replay
from a PITR archive, and the FSM information in the base backup is really
out of date. If there was a lot of pages that the outdated FSM claims to
have free space, but don't actually have any, the first unlucky inserter
after the recovery would traverse through all those pages, just to find
out that they're full. We didn't have this problem with the old FSM
implementation, because we simply threw the FSM information away on a
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.