Re: Dense index?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dense index?
Date: 2014-08-28 05:41:53
Message-ID: CAM3SWZRGOPRs=P6RoOnKDR1ttyWjcn+igm+PsvqWmOOS8eJgvw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> I know that the alignment is required for faster memory access, but
> sometimes we may want to save disk space for index to save I/O because
> these days customers want to handle huge number of rows. To make index
> more "dense", can we add an option something like "dense index" to
> align index tuples by using INTALIGN rather than MAXALIGN?

I think we should certainly consider it.

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Peter Geoghegan

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