and UPDATE are clearly covered by the term.
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<title>Description</title>
<para>
- <command>VACUUM</command> reclaims storage occupied by deleted tuples.
+ <command>VACUUM</command> reclaims storage occupied by expired tuples.
In normal <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> operation, tuples that
are deleted or obsoleted by an update are not physically removed from
their table; they remain present until a <command>VACUUM</command> is