�<span class="quote">super</span>”</span> pages or
        <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">large</span>”</span> pages) automatically for normal memory
        allocation, without an explicit request from
        <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span>. On Linux, this is called
        <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">transparent huge pages</span>”</span><a id="id-1.6.7.7.2.2.2.2.5.5" class="indexterm"></a> (THP). That feature has been known to
        cause performance degrada