Re: [HACKERS] What I'm working on - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] What I'm working on
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Msg-id 199808232221.SAA25151@candle.pha.pa.us
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] What I'm working on  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> > I am working on a patch to:
> >
> >     remove oidname, oidint2, and oidint4
> >     allow the bootstrap code to create multi-key indexes
>
> Good man...always bugged me that the "old" hacked-in multikey
> indexes were there after Vadim let the user create them.
>
> But...returning to Insight as of Sept.1st.  Once I get settled
> in, I should be to stay late a couple of evenings and get my
> old patches up-to-date.

I have been thinking about the blocksize patch, and I now think it is
good we never installed it.  I think we need to enable rows to span more
than one block.  That is what commercial databases do, and I think this
is a much more general solution to the problem than increasing the block
size.


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