A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat
This is potentially BIG news. At my last company Postgres bloat was a gigantic problem. We did a lot of data updates and sometimes customer databases (we sharded by schema) would be bloated by as much as 300%. This really hurts when some customers are 50+ GB. Not only does bloat take up more space but it slows down queries.We would occasionally resort to taking the customer offline for scheduled maintenance to do a pg_dump/pg_restore to get their DB back in shape.I'm very curious to hear when this might become available for production use cases.EDIT: Article states this has been proposed for Postgres 12