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Vacuum

PostgreSQL

A maintenance operation that reclaims storage from dead tuples, updates visibility maps, and refreshes planner statistics. VACUUM runs without exclusive locks; VACUUM FULL rewrites the entire table and requires an exclusive lock.

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