Re: AW: [HACKERS] Volunteer: Large Tuples / Tuple chaining - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hiroshi Inoue
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] Volunteer: Large Tuples / Tuple chaining
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Msg-id 385620EF.2AF3FCB@tpf.co.jp
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In response to AW: [HACKERS] Volunteer: Large Tuples / Tuple chaining  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:

> > Hmm,we have discussed about LONG.
> > Change by LONG is transparent to users and would resolve
> > the big tuple problem mostly.
> > I'm suspicious that tuple chaining is worth the work now.
>
> All commercial db's I know allow at least 32kb tuples,
> they all do it with chaining, because they usually have a
> smaller (often configurable) pagesize.
> Imho it is definitely worth it.
>

There would be few cases > 8K tuples after LONG was implemented.
And tuple chaining is much difficult to implement than LONG.
If it is badly designed it would be a disaster.
Is it still worth doing now ?

At least the design must be verified sufficiently before going.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp


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