Re: Fwd: Clarification about HOT

From: "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-development Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Clarification about HOT
Date: 2007-11-05 15:20:33
Message-ID: 9362e74e0711050720o54477842t75a2557cc2770f93@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks Heikki. To clarify, there won't be any redirect-line pointers in this
implementation. That space is saved. We will have the index tuple point to
the latest live tuple in the update chain. So no need for redirect-line
pointers.

Thanks,
Gokul.

On 11/5/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Gokulakannan Somasundaram wrote:
> >> There's also the little problem that a redirect line pointer doesn't
> >> have room for a cross-page link,
> >
> > i don't know, what is a re-direct line pointer.
>
> Then you clearly don't understand at all how HOT works. Please go read
> src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT.
>
> --
> Heikki Linnakangas
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

--
Thanks,
Gokul.
CertoSQL Project,
Allied Solution Group.
(www.alliedgroups.com)

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