Re: btree split logic is fragile in the presence of lar ge index items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: btree split logic is fragile in the presence of lar ge index items
Date: 2000-07-27 03:27:09
Message-ID: 200007270327.XAA12355@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Note that using TID as part of key would give us additional feature:
> fast heap tuple --> index tuple look up. With this feature vacuum wouldn't
> have to read entire index to delete a few items... and this will be required
> for space re-using without vacuum...

Wow, this seems like a huge win.

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