On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:03:39PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > As I remember, WARM only allows > > a single index-column change in the chain. Why are you seeing such a > > large performance improvement? I would have thought it would be that > > high if we allowed an unlimited number of index changes in the chain. > > The second update in a chain creates another non-warm-updated tuple, so > the third update can be a warm update again, and so on.
Right, before this patch they would be two independent HOT chains. It still seems like an unexpectedly-high performance win. Are two independent HOT chains that much more expensive than joining them via WARM? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers