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I think it is also important to acknowledge that there are things innodb does better than Postgres, eg. For most workloads an undo log is a far better data structure than implementing MVCC by duplicating rows. Autovacuum and vacuum can be an absolute nightmare, plus the extra disk traffic the duplication generates. Maybe one day OrioleDb will bring this to postgres too.


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