Merlin Moncure <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Instead of trying to maintain MVCC semantics, maybe we should just
>> have something like COPY (FROZEN) that just writes frozen tuples into
>> the table and throws MVCC out the window. Seems like that would be a
>> lot easier to implement and satisfy basically the same use cases.
> -1: The situation with hint bit i/o patterns on many workloads is
> untenable but it's not safe to assume MVCC can be ditched in those
> workloads. Also, COPY does nothing about deletes. Neither does the
> proposal as stated but I think it's easier to generalize into 'I want
> to put hint bits in now so I don't have to deal with them later'.
Dunno, I think Robert's idea has a fair amount of merit: mainly because
it will probably satisfy 90% of use cases for 1% of the work.
regards, tom lane
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