Re: Including Snapshot Info with Indexes

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andreas Joseph Krogh" <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Including Snapshot Info with Indexes
Date: 2007-10-14 13:35:35
Message-ID: 87fy0du8d4.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> So Indexes with snapshots will be degrading the performance only for deletes
> and only those updates, which are updating the index tuple.

Deletes never update indexes in Postgres. Increasing the size of the index
would affect vacuum, inserts, and index accesses.

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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