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by chuckhend on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:03AM
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Good talk! It was surprising to me when I first learned that UPDATE does not literally overwrite what is on disk, its more like an abstracted API that gives me the impression that I updated the row on disk.
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Thanks :) The surprises don't stop though - it's abstract turtles all the way down...meaning plenty of fat to trim between UPDATE and what's happening in the MOSFETs. Might be of interest: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11866.pdf