Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap [Review]

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jameison Martin <jameisonb(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap [Review]
Date: 2013-06-24 20:32:41
Message-ID: 51C8ACE9.2090901@agliodbs.com
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Simon,

> I think its rather a shame that the proponents of this patch have
> tried so hard to push this through without working variations on the
> theme. Please guys, go away and get creative; rethink the approach so
> that you can have your lunch without anybody else losing theirs. I
> would add that I have seen the use case and want to support it, but
> we're looking to add to the codebase not just steal small bites of
> performance from existing use cases.

Do we really have ironclad numbers which show that the patch affects
performance negatively? I didn't think the previous performance test
was comprehensive; I was planning to develop one myself this week.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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