diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml index 9b93ea5599b..9e19aa63e43 100644 --- 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.