A duplicate is a leaf page tuple (a tuple that points to a table
row) where all indexed key columns have values
that match corresponding column values from at least one other leaf
- page tuple that's close by in the same index. Duplicate tuples are
- quite common in practice. B-Tree indexes can use a special,
- space-efficient representation for duplicates when an optional
- technique is enabled: deduplication.
+ page tuple in the same index. Duplicate tuples are quite common in
+ practice. B-Tree indexes can use a special, space-efficient
+ representation for duplicates when an optional technique is
+ enabled: deduplication.
Deduplication works by periodically merging groups of duplicate