Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables
Date: 2010-02-23 05:12:46
Message-ID: 9638.1266901966@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> Instead, how about excluding columns in primary keys from table data?

How will you implement "select * from mytable" ? Or even
"select * from mytable where non_primary_key = something" ?
If you can't do either of those without great expense, I think
a savings on primary-key lookups is not going to be adequate
recompense.

regards, tom lane

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