Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

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

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes
Date
Msg-id 486A2CD2.7010109@sun.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
Tom Lane napsal(a):

> 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?
> 

The problem what I see there is how to fit with in-place-upgrade. Catalog should 
be generate from scratch, but if somebody uses name in regular table it invokes 
request for reindex.
    Zdenek

-- 
Zdenek Kotala              Sun Microsystems
Prague, Czech Republic     http://sun.com/postgresql

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Mark Cave-Ayland
Date:
Subject: Re: WIP patch: reducing overhead for repeat de-TOASTing
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: WIP patch: reducing overhead for repeat de-TOASTing