Re: Lossy Index Tuple Enhancement (LITE)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lossy Index Tuple Enhancement (LITE)
Date: 2016-08-04 17:03:34
Message-ID: CANP8+jKN4OLQ22RK6+98JkthOL5O+2fSOnCcDg8rJP5du0cJ3g@mail.gmail.com
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On 4 August 2016 at 02:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> How do plan to clear the bitmask so it, over time, doesn't end up being
> all-set?

I don't have a plan, though thoughts welcome.

Similar situation that our current indexes don't recover from bloat, a
situation made worse by non-HOT updates.

So, we have a choice of which disadvantage to accept.

> Also, why not use this bitmap for all indexes, not just update chains?

I don't understand where you get this update chains thing from.

The bitmap can apply to multiple tuples on one page, which is described.

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