Re: Pluggable storage

From: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pluggable storage
Date: 2017-10-13 18:54:04
Message-ID: CAPpHfdsX8DC1E_O+ca4BDr57PJpFE30Zu51G0Y4b5Uu8xxdHsw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Kuntal Ghosh
> <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > For some other
> > storage engine, if we maintain the older version in different storage,
> > undo for example, and don't require a new index entry, should we still
> > call it HOT-chain?
>
> I would say, emphatically, no. HOT is a creature of the existing
> heap. If it's creeping into storage APIs they are not really
> abstracted from what we have currently.

+1,
different storage may need to insert entries to only *some* of indexes.
Wherein these new index entries may have either same or new TIDs.

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

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