Re: A Silly Idea for Vertically-Oriented Databases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Mielke
Subject Re: A Silly Idea for Vertically-Oriented Databases
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Msg-id 46E556CA.4080000@mark.mielke.cc
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In response to Re: A Silly Idea for Vertically-Oriented Databases  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> ISTM we would be able to do this fairly well if we implemented
> Index-only columns. i.e. columns that don't exist in the heap, only in
> an index. 
>
> Taken to the extreme, all columns could be removed from the heap and
> placed in an index(es). Only the visibility information would remain on
> the heap.
>   
Wouldn't the extreme be - even the visibility information is in the 
index? :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>


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