Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, "Karl Schnaitter" <karlsch(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers list" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables
Date: 2010-02-24 16:39:20
Message-ID: 8773.1267029560@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> So you are essentially proposing that rather than moving the heap
> data into the leaf tuples of the index in the index file, you will
> move the leaf index data into the heap tuples? The pages in such a
> IOT heap file would still need to look a lot like index pages, yes?

> I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but I'm curious what benefits you
> see to taking that approach.

Isn't that just a variant on Heikki's "grouped index tuples" idea?

regards, tom lane

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