Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Mielke
Subject Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes
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Msg-id 486026AA.1040200@mark.mielke.cc
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In response to Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Cutting a third off the size of a system index has got to be worth
>> something, but is it worth a hack as ugly as this one?
>>     
>
> I think so.

Were you able to time any speedup? Is this something that would benefit 
installations with a lot of metadata? I presume most of this information 
normally easily fits in cache most of the time?

I am trying to understand what exactly it is worth... :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>



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