On 24/03/2026 16:28, Evgeny Voropaev wrote:
> Also I hope, independently of its usage in prune/freeze records, the
> DFoR itself might be used for compression sequences in other places of PG.
Yeah, that would make this huge amount of new code much more palatable.
I had a similar thought when I added src/backend/lib/integerset.c, I
planned to also use it for holding the dead TID list in vacuum for
starters, and possibly for more things in the future. That plan was
foiled because we got parallel VACUUM instead, which moved the TID list
to shared memory, and I didn't account for that in integerset.c. So now
integerset.c is only used for GiST vacuum, which is a pretty narrow use
case.
Can this DFoR code replace integerset.c easily? Can we use it for the
vacuum dead TID list? For GIN posting lists? Where else?
- Heikki
