Re: Diagonal storage model

Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-01T22:19:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Konstantin Knizhnik <
k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> wrote:

> I want to announce new model, "diagonal storage" which combines benefits
> of both approaches.
> The idea is very simple: we first store column 1 of first record, then
> column 2 of second record, ... and so on until we reach the last column.
> After it we store second column of first record, third column of the
> second record,...
>

I'm a little worried about the fact that even with this model we're still
limited to only two dimensions.  That's bound to cause problems sooner or
later.


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