BTW, I am still looking for a reason for the hard-prune logic to live. It seems to complicate matters far more than it's worth --- in particular the way that the WAL replay representation is set up seems confusing and fragile. (If prune_hard is set, the "redirect" entries mean something completely different.) There was some suggestion that VACUUM FULL has to have it, but unless I see proof of that I'm thinking of taking it out.
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