RE: Proposal: replace no-overwrite with Berkeley DB

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Benjamin Adida <ben(at)mit(dot)edu>, "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Proposal: replace no-overwrite with Berkeley DB
Date: 2000-05-15 20:39:41
Message-ID: 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A23018BDE@SECTORBASE1
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> Another option is to keep our heap table structure intact, and just
> Sleepycat DB for our indexes. That may be a big win, with little
> downside. Certainly something to think about. It may work
> better with MVCC, and allow fast sequential scans and fast heap
> access from the indexs, without having to go through the db structures
> to get to it.

But... we will still have to implement new smgr for tables and
redo/undo functions for heap access method.

Vadim

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