Re: Extension of Thick Indexes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Shrish Purohit <shrish_purohit(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>, Amit Gupta <amit(dot)pc(dot)gupta(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: Extension of Thick Indexes
Date: 2009-03-19 20:36:27
Message-ID: 20090319203627.GO8874@alvh.no-ip.org
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Josh Berkus escribió:

> Also, for people not familiar with Gokul's work, can you give us an
> explanation of the theory and implementation for this?

It would be helpful to explain how this solves the lack of atomicity of
visibility data updates, which last time I checked was the killer
problem for this feature.

(It'd be good to do this in good ol' plain text email without resorting
to compressed files on random text formats)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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