Re: Index Tuple Compression Approach?

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index Tuple Compression Approach?
Date: 2007-08-15 17:41:08
Message-ID: 1187199668.5203.17.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com
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On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 06:51 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> What Chris is suggesting is basically a special case of GIT, where all
> the heap tuples represented by an index tuple have the same key. I was
> actually thinking of adding a flag to index tuples to indicate that
> special case in GIT. We could effectively do both.
>

The bigger difference that I see is that GIT doesn't just group together
ranges of keys, it also groups by heap page number (or a small range of
page numbers, as Simon pointed out).

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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