Re: pgsql: Some small tuptoaster improvements from Greg Stark. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: pgsql: Some small tuptoaster improvements from Greg Stark.
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In response to pgsql: Some small tuptoaster improvements from Greg Stark.  (tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane))
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"Tom Lane" <tgl@postgresql.org> writes:

> Log Message:
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> Some small tuptoaster improvements from Greg Stark.  Avoid unnecessary
> decompression of an already-compressed external value when we have to copy
> it; save a few cycles when a value is too short for compression; and
> annotate various lines that are currently unreachable.

There were some further changes you suggested involving rethinking the way the
compression strategy works. Should I put that on my todo list for early in 8.4?

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  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com

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