Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, 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: 2010-02-25 21:02:24
Message-ID: 14685.1267131744@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think, somewhere things have been misunderstood. we only need 8
> bytes more per index entry. I thought Postgres has a 8 byte transaction id,
> but it is only 4 bytes, so we only need to save the insertion and deletion
> xids. So 8 bytes more per tuple.

What makes you think you can get away without cmin/cmax?

regards, tom lane

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