Claudio Freire wrote: > A missing optimization is that having tid unification allows VACUUM to > implement a different strategy when it needs to clean up only a tiny > fraction of the index. It can do the lookup by key-tid instead of > scanning the whole index, which can be a win if the index is large and > the number of index pointers to kill is small.
Doing index cleanup by using keys instead of scanning the whole index would be a *huge* win for many use cases. I don't think that work needs to be related to either of these patches. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
