Re: Proposal: Global Index - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Proposal: Global Index
Date
Msg-id 20191219030328.GI30116@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: Global Index  (Jeremy Schneider <schnjere@amazon.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal: Global Index  (Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>)
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 03:44:39PM -0800, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> On 11/25/19 15:05, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> > ... the cost of doing the individual index lookups across 180
> > partitions (and 180 indexes) was very high, so they stored max and min
> > txn id per partition and would generate a query with all the dates that
> > a txn id could have been in so that only a small number of partition
> > indexes would be accessed. 
> > 
> > .. If we are looking for higher concurrency, we can usually
> > add a hack/workaround that filters on a partition key to provide “pretty
> > good” pruning.  The net result is that you get 2-3x the IO due to the
> > lack of global index (same workaround as first story above).
> 
> Is that basically like a global BRIN index with granularity at the
> partition level?

Exactly!  :-)

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