Re: HOT - preliminary results

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: HOT - preliminary results
Date: 2007-03-02 21:37:05
Message-ID: 20070302213705.GA14953@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:35 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> > > Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > > > On 3/1/07, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > > seems pretty solid except for one possible problem...at one point when
> > > > I dropped then later added the index on 'abalance', I got spammed
> > > > 'WARNING: found a HOT-updated tuple' from psql prompt.
> > >
> > > Thats intentional. We don't yet support CREATE INDEX on a HOT-updated
> > > table. This is one of the major unfinished TODO items before we can
> > > consider patch feature complete. I have left the warning to catch
> > > this case till then.
> >
> > CREATE INDEX and VACUUM FULL will require changes. Proposals for VACUUM
> > FULL have been posted, CREATE INDEX should be there tomorrow.
> >
> > CLUSTER does not need changes for HOT, as things stand currently, mainly
> > because its MVCC behaviour is broken.
> ------------------------
>
> That's oddly discouraging. :-)

Apparently no one has been bothered enough to fix CLUSTER.

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