From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | stuporg(at)erols(dot)com (Stupor Genius) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development) |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] What I'm working on |
Date: | 1998-08-23 22:21:39 |
Message-ID: | 199808232221.SAA25151@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I am working on a patch to:
> >
> > remove oidname, oidint2, and oidint4
> > allow the bootstrap code to create multi-key indexes
>
> Good man...always bugged me that the "old" hacked-in multikey
> indexes were there after Vadim let the user create them.
>
> But...returning to Insight as of Sept.1st. Once I get settled
> in, I should be to stay late a couple of evenings and get my
> old patches up-to-date.
I have been thinking about the blocksize patch, and I now think it is
good we never installed it. I think we need to enable rows to span more
than one block. That is what commercial databases do, and I think this
is a much more general solution to the problem than increasing the block
size.
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