Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As previously discussed [1], WARM is a technique to reduce write
> amplification when an indexed column of a table is updated. HOT fails to
> handle such updates and ends up inserting a new index entry in all indexes
> of the table, irrespective of whether the index key has changed or not for
> a specific index. The problem was highlighted by Uber's blog post [2], but
> it was a well known problem and affects many workloads.
>
>
I realised that the patches were bit-rotten because of 8e1e3f958fb. Rebased
patches on the current master are attached. I also took this opportunity to
correct some white space errors and improve formatting of the README.

Thanks,
Pavan

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