Re: An idle thought - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gokulakannan Somasundaram
Subject Re: An idle thought
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In response to Re: An idle thought  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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The visibility map itself is already an example of compression. If
visibility information were randomly distributed among tuples, the
visibility map would be nearly useless.


I believe it is very difficult to make visibility map update friendly without compromising durability.  But such a functionality is very much wanted in PG still.



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