Re: HOT patch - version 15

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Florian Pflug <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: HOT patch - version 15
Date: 2007-09-10 20:05:58
Message-ID: 1189454758.4281.328.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 01:22 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:

> I think the only difference is that the quick pruning does not mark
> intermediate tuples ~LP_USED and hence we may avoid WAL logging.

Sounds great.

> Btw, I am not too enthusiastic about quick pruning because it leaves
> behind dead heap-only tuples which are not reachable from any root
> heap tuples. Not that we can't handle them, but I am worried about
> making such changes right now unless we are sure about the benefits.
> We can always tune and tweak in 8.4

...but we don't want to reach them. They are waiting to be removed.

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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