High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails: Errata on page 177, First Printing

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Page 177 has the following sentence:

For active deleted rows, since they represent the biggest proportion—the majority of rows—PostgreSQL would likely load the whole table with a sequential scan and then filter out the smaller proportion of soft-deleted rows.

The sentence should read: For active rows, since they represent the biggest proportion—the majority of rows—PostgreSQL would likely load the whole table with a sequential scan and then filter out the smaller proportion of soft-deleted rows.

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