Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables

Missed the group..

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <
gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> I definitely think thick indexes were too ambitious of a target for a
>> first time patch. Sequential index scans is very ambitious itself
>> despite being significantly simpler (if you have a solution which
>> works -- we haven't had one thus far).
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> The point, i am trying to bring out is that i want to work with one of the
> senior persons of the community to do my first few patches.
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>> Can you point me to the thread on "trailing nulls"? I think trimming
>> off any null columns from the ends of tuples when forming them should
>> be a cheap and easy optimization which just nobody's gotten around to
>> doing. If that's what you mean then I'm surprised you had any trouble
>> getting buy-in for it.
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00682.php
> I think, the buy-in became difficult because of the code quality.
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> Thanks,
> Gokul.
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