Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables

From: Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Karl Schnaitter <karlsch(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables
Date: 2010-02-24 16:16:11
Message-ID: 9362e74e1002240816w41c62e26q1cd5fbcda1ba0aaa@mail.gmail.com
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> With an IOT I don't understand how you get out of index corruption
> without data loss. That's a showstopper for practical use, I think.
>

For simplicity, say we are storing all the non-leaf pages of the index in a
seperate file, then the leaf pages are nothing but the table. So if we can
replicate the table, then we can replicate the non-leaf pages (say by some
modified version of reindex).

Thanks,
Gokul.

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