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Subject: Re: What's the dfifference between
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> On Jul 23, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Thorsten Sch=C3=B6ning =
<tschoening@am-soft.de> wrote:
>=20
> So why is that row used at all instead of simply ignored?

Because it is in the file. WAL can re-do changes, it cannot undo them.