Some time ago I wrote about my favorite method of bloat removal. Around one year earlier, I wrote about another idea for bloat removal. This older idea was great – it didn't involve usage of triggers, overhead on all writes, table swapping. It had just one small, tiny, minuscule little issue. It was unbearably slow.

My idea was explored by Nathan Thom, but his blogpost disappeared.

Recently, Sergey Konoplev wrote to me about his tool, that he wrote using the same idea – updating rows to move them to other pages. So I decided that I have to check it.

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