Re: Planned simplification of catalog index updates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Planned simplification of catalog index updates
Date
Msg-id 200208030146.g731kSS11333@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Planned simplification of catalog index updates  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> This would simplify development/maintenance at the cost of a small
> amount of CPU time building the index OID list whenever it wasn't
> already cached.  (OTOH ... I'm unsure whether opening an index by OID
> is any faster than opening it by name, but it's certainly plausible that
> it might be --- so we could find we buy back the time spent building
> relcache index lists by making the actual index open step quicker.)
> 
> Comments?  I want to do the first step in any case, but I'm not sure
> about eliminating the index name lists.

All your changes make sense to me.

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