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by dtech 2230 days ago
Is that always the case? I'd expect that only to be necessary with a complete table rewrite, i.e. VACUUM FULL, which is not what (auto)VACUUM does by default.
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Even with a full table rewrite, why do you need to rewrite to RAM?
The "you must have a 1Gb free" refers to disk space, not main-memory (RAM).