Thanks for the quick reply Ryan.
> We only use v1 and it still works well. That said, I'd love to make some > progress on better encodings and finalizing v2 so we can use them! Are there JIRAs or other documentation that is tracking this work? Thanks, Micah On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:55 PM Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote: > While there isn't anything wrong with it, the same challenges have been > solved in different ways with v1 pages. The main difference is that v2 > pages are broken at record boundaries, and v1 pages weren't guaranteed to > be. But, in order to write page indexes near the footer, breaking pages at > record boundaries is required. So you know if you have page indexes, you > can actually use them to skip through pages safely. That removes much of > the need for v2 pages. > > The main drawback to using v2 pages is that the v2 spec is unfinished, and > I don't think there is a way to use just the new pages. So you'd possibly > end up pulling in other beta features that probably shouldn't be used if > you want to stick with what is required for compatibility across > implementations. > > We only use v1 and it still works well. That said, I'd love to make some > progress on better encodings and finalizing v2 so we can use them! > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:44 PM Micah Kornfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What is the current status of support for Data Page V2? Is it recommended >> for production workloads? >> >> Thanks, >> Micah >> > > > -- > Ryan Blue > Software Engineer > Netflix >
