Mention that tables have a visibility map fork alongside the main fork

and FSM.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
index 9b93ea5599b6bee38145cfd575ac16fda0afbb1f..9e19aa63e43add6d4dc7da8e2f6918de610d1a49 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
 
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ or index's filenode number, which can be found in
 main file (aka. main fork), a free space map (see
 ) that stores information about free space
 available in the relation, is stored in a file named after the filenode
-number, with the the _fsm suffix.
+number, with the _fsm suffix.  Tables also have a visibility map
+fork, with the _vm suffix, to track which pages are known to have
+no dead tuples and therefore need no vacuuming.