Re: Should TIDs be typbyval = FLOAT8PASSBYVAL to speed up CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should TIDs be typbyval = FLOAT8PASSBYVAL to speed up CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY?
Date: 2015-12-11 22:35:04
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTXoKzsyUFab1Ft9XsfY7Y73gFH95dTaUqRZVzz_x2Gfg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Sure, the machine we called "ninefivealpha", which incidentally, failed to
> find a single bug in alpha2 thru beta2, is currently idle, and concurrent
> index creation times are a bugbear around these parts. Can somebody, either
> in this thread or privately, outline what sort of a test they'd like to see?

Any kind of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY test, before and after.

I looked at a simple, random int4 column. That seems like a good case
to focus on, since there isn't too much other overhead. I think I
performed my test on an unlogged table, to make sure other overhead
was even further minimized.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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