Re: HOT patch - version 15

From: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Florian Pflug" <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: HOT patch - version 15
Date: 2007-09-10 19:13:23
Message-ID: 2e78013d0709101213w478e5658jaf16aaaf256ab675@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/10/07, Florian Pflug <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>
> Maybe that risk could be lowered if instead of a flag, we stored the
> minimal global xmin needed to prune at least one tuple.
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>

I like the idea. The question is whether the chances of a Prunable
page being looked up again and again in presence of a long
running transaction are high enough to justify adding 4 bytes
to page header.

Thanks,
Pavan

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Pavan Deolasee
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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