Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes

From: Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes
Date: 2008-06-23 22:41:46
Message-ID: 486026AA.1040200@mark.mielke.cc
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Cutting a third off the size of a system index has got to be worth
>> something, but is it worth a hack as ugly as this one?
>>
>
> I think so.

Were you able to time any speedup? Is this something that would benefit
installations with a lot of metadata? I presume most of this information
normally easily fits in cache most of the time?

I am trying to understand what exactly it is worth... :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark(at)mielke(dot)cc>

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