Re: Pluggable storage

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pluggable storage
Date: 2017-07-19 17:56:49
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZwsjtEprvXrTU5FmiN=Gi8i_x_gYjWzi5woOscUDqgiw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> To repeat myself, for emphasis: *Not all bloat is equal*.

+1.

> I strongly agree. I simply don't understand how you can adopt UNDO for
> MVCC, and yet expect to get a benefit commensurate with the effort
> without also implementing "retail index tuple deletion" first.

I agree that we need retail index tuple deletion. I liked Claudio's
idea at http://postgr.es/m/CAGTBQpZ-kTRQiAa13xG1GNe461YOwrA-s-ycCQPtyFrpKTaDBQ@mail.gmail.com
-- that seems indispensible to making retail index tuple deletion
reasonably efficient. Is anybody going to work on getting that
committed?

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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