Re: An idle thought

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: An idle thought
Date: 2010-03-17 21:20:00
Message-ID: 26222.1268860800@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> writes:
> There are all kinds of challenges there, but it might be worth thinking
> about. Visibility information is highly compressible, and requires
> constant maintenance (updates, deletes, freezing, etc.). It also might
> make it possible to move to 64-bit xids, if we wanted to.

If you want it to be cheaply updatable (or even cheaply readable),
compression is not what you're going to do.

regards, tom lane

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