Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes
Date: 2008-07-01 13:10:42
Message-ID: 486A2CD2.7010109@sun.com
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Tom Lane napsal(a):

> Cutting a third off the size of a system index has got to be worth
> something, but is it worth a hack as ugly as this one?
>

The problem what I see there is how to fit with in-place-upgrade. Catalog should
be generate from scratch, but if somebody uses name in regular table it invokes
request for reindex.

Zdenek

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