| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Physical append-only tables |
| Date: | 2016-11-24 01:26:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20161124012616.GA1668@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:43:12PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> That said, I don't think the "maintain clustering a bit better using
> BRIN" is a bad idea. It's just the bit about turning a table
> append-only to deal with update-once data that I think is overreach.
What if we used BRIN to find heap pages where the new row was in the
page BRIN min/max range, and the heap page had free space. Only if that
fails do we put is somewhere else in the heap.
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