Re: Dense index? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Dense index?
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Msg-id 15524.1409203643@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Dense index?  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> I know that the alignment is required for faster memory access, but
> sometimes we may want to save disk space for index to save I/O because
> these days customers want to handle huge number of rows. To make index
> more "dense", can we add an option something like "dense index" to
> align index tuples by using INTALIGN rather than MAXALIGN?

Only if you want it to crash hard on most non-Intel architectures.
        regards, tom lane



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