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Re: Dead Space Map


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Dead Space Map
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:09:18 -0500
  • Message-id: <16148(dot)1141146558(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> One idea Simon and I had was to reuse heap rows where all indexed values
> in the old row and the new row were the same, meaning the heap value
> could be replaced without changing the indexes at all.  We thought this
> would be very useful for frequently-updated rows.  It could also be used
> if no index are on the table.

MVCC goes out the window, eh?  Not to mention transaction rollback ability?

			regards, tom lane



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