Re: Single pass vacuum - take 1

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Single pass vacuum - take 1
Date: 2011-07-14 18:43:53
Message-ID: 1310668936-sup-1775@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Pavan Deolasee's message of jue jul 14 13:54:36 -0400 2011:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <
> heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> > Seems odd to store relindxvacxlogid/off as two int32 columns. Store it in
> > one uint64 column, or invent a new datatype for LSNs, or store it as text in
> > %X/%X format.
> >
> >
> Yeah. I don't remember what issues I faced with uint64 column, may be did
> not get around the case where uint64 is not natively supported on the
> platform. But %X/%X looks very reasonable. Will change to that.

Where is this to be stored?

AFAIR we no longer support platforms that do not have working 64 bit
integer types.

As a column name, relindxvacxlogid seems a bit unfortunate, BTW ...

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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