Re: [WIP]Vertical Clustered Index (columnar store extension) - take2

Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
To: Timur Magomedov <t.magomedov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, "Aya Iwata (Fujitsu)" <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-12T07:08:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Mark ItemPointer arguments as const throughout

  2. Reorganize GUC structs

  3. Eliminate XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE from vacuum phase III

  4. Update various forward declarations to use typedef

  5. Pathify RHS unique-ification for semijoin planning

  6. Revert "Don't lock partitions pruned by initial pruning"

  7. For inplace update, send nontransactional invalidations.

  8. Remove nearly-unused SizeOfIptrData macro.

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM Timur Magomedov
<t.magomedov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> I've noticed there are changes in Postgres code v4 patch that rollback
> the commit [1]. That commit optimizes TupleHashEntryData struct size
> and amount of memory allocations which improves performance (see
> discussion [2]).
> Can we use leave TupleHashEntryData as is and make new VCI-specific
> struct that contains TupleHashEntryData member and an additional
> pointer or make VCI use TupleHashEntryGetAdditional()?
>

Thanks for the report. This is fixed in v6.

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia