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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [WIP] Effective storage of duplicates in B-tree index.
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [WIP] Effective storage of duplicates in B-tree index.  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] [WIP] Effective storage of duplicates in B-tree index.  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 6:22 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> * Disabled deduplication in system catalog indexes by deeming it
> generally unsafe.

I (continue to) think that deduplication is a terrible name, because
you're not getting rid of the duplicates. You are using a compressed
representation of the duplicates.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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