Re: pgsql is 75 times faster with my new index scan

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Devik <devik(at)server(dot)cdi(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql is 75 times faster with my new index scan
Date: 2000-10-17 11:16:24
Message-ID: 39EC3508.C9F9D350@tm.ee
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > > I doubt everyone would like trading query speed for insert/update
> > > > speed plus index size
> > >
> > > If he is scanning through the entire index, he could do a sequential
> > > scan of the table, grab all the tid transaction status values, and use
> > > those when viewing the index. No need to store/update the transaction
> > > status in the index that way.
> >
> > Huh ? How ? It is how you do it now. Do you expect
> > load several milion transaction statuses into memory,
> > then scan index and lookup these values ?
> > Missed I something ?
> > devik
> >
> >
>
> Not sure. I figured they were pretty small values.

IIRC the whole point was to avoid scanning the table ?

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Hannu

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