Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(dot)casanova(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)
Date: 2017-02-23 18:03:39
Message-ID: 20170223180339.sp6dkumsklt44kys@alvherre.pgsql
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> As I remember, WARM only allows
> a single index-column change in the chain. Why are you seeing such a
> large performance improvement? I would have thought it would be that
> high if we allowed an unlimited number of index changes in the chain.

The second update in a chain creates another non-warm-updated tuple, so
the third update can be a warm update again, and so on.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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