Re: Vertical Partitioning with TOAST

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Junji TERAMOTO <teramoto(dot)junji(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Vertical Partitioning with TOAST
Date: 2006-03-04 10:21:19
Message-ID: 20060304102119.GB29180@svana.org
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Also getting rid of toast index and start using ctids directly would be
> a big bonus.
>
> When using direct ctids we could use either ctid chains or some sort of
> skiplist for access to N-th TOAST chunk.

I suppose this would mean that you couldn't use vacuum on the toast
table anymore. Or teach vacuum that everytime it moves a tuple it needs
to update the original table (sequential scan). What exactly are you
trying to save here?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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