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Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Jaime Casanova <jaime.casanova@2ndquadrant.com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-30T13:57:57Z
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Pavan Deolasee
<pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we can fix that by comparing compressed values.  I know you had
> raised concerns, but Robert confirmed that (IIUC) it's not a problem today.

I'm not sure that's an entirely fair interpretation of what I said.
My point was that, while it may not be broken today, it might not be a
good idea to rely for correctness on it always being true.

-- 
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Implement SortSupport for macaddr data type

  2. Simplify check of modified attributes in heap_update

  3. Remove direct uses of ItemPointer.{ip_blkid,ip_posid}

  4. Fix CatalogTupleInsert/Update abstraction for case of shared indstate.

  5. Provide CatalogTupleDelete() as a wrapper around simple_heap_delete().

  6. Band-aid fix for incorrect use of view options as StdRdOptions.

  7. Update visibility map in the second phase of vacuum.

  8. Avoid having two copies of the HOT-chain search logic.

  9. Postgres95 1.01 Distribution - Virgin Sources