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  is arbitrarily capped at MaxHeapTuplesPerPage (the most tuples that
  could fit without HOT pruning).
  
+ Effectively, space reclamation happens during tuple retrieval when the
+ page is nearly full (<10%) and a buffer cleanup lock can be acquired. 
+ This means that UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT can trigger space
+ reclamation, while INSERT ... VALUES cannot because it does not retrieve
+ a row.
+ 
  
  VACUUM
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