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It was possible for deduplication's single value strategy to mistakenly believe that a very small duplicate tuple counts as one of the six large tuples that it aims to leave behind after the page finally splits. This could cause slightly suboptimal space utilization with very low cardinality indexes, though only under fairly narrow conditions. To fix, be particular about what kind of tuple counts as a maxpostingsize-capped tuple. This avoids confusion in the event of a small tuple that gets "wedged" between two large tuples, where all tuples on the page are duplicates of the same value. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=Y+sgSFc-O3LpiZX-POx2bC+okec2KafERHuzdVa7-rQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 13-, where deduplication was introduced (by commit 0d861bbb)
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