Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables
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In response to Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> I would add that both Heikki and Greg Stark have argued at length that
> the visibility map cannot be relied upon in production systems.

It cannot be relied on *in its current form*. There's a hole in crash
recovery where it can be left in an inconsistent state. That obviously
needs to be fixed before it is relied on for index-only-scans or similar
purposes, but it's not an insurmountable problem.

--  Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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