Re: Minor TODO list changes

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minor TODO list changes
Date: 2004-11-04 16:51:15
Message-ID: 200411041651.iA4GpFR02864@candle.pha.pa.us
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OK, I updated all your items. I removed fillfactor because I thought I
was the only one who thought it was valuable and as I remember it was
mostly useful for ISAM, which we don't support. Can you think of a use
for a non-100% fillfactor?

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Simon Riggs wrote:
> A few minor typos/notes:
>
> INDEXES
>
> 1. On 2nd bullet...
> "The main difficulty with this item is the problem of creating an index
> that can spam more than one table."
>
> should be span, not spam
>
> 2. On 6th bullet
> * "Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used
> with non-consecutive keys to reduce heap accesses
>
> For an index on col1,col2,col3, and a WHERE clause of col1 = 5 and col3
> = 9, spin though the index checking for col1 and col3 matches, rather
> than just col1 "
>
> This is also known as "skip-scanning", so it would be good to use that
> phrase in the TODO
>
> 3. Whatever happened to the FILLFACTOR todo item? AFAICS it disappeared
> sometime at the beginning of August, but I'm not sure why?
>
> REF INTEGRITY
>
> ...Didn't we just get rid of deferred triggers?? Perhaps I read that
> wrong.
>
>
> CACHE
>
> 1. 1st bullet....prefix it with "Use posix_fadvise() API to let OS know
> how files will be used by PostgreSQL. This would allow, for example,
> a..." (replacing the word "add").
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards, Simon Riggs
>
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