On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do have a patch that attacks suffix truncation, heap tid unification > and prefix compression all at once.
That's great! I'll certainly be able to review it. > It's on a hiatus ATM, but, as you say, the implementations are highly > correlated so attacking them at once makes a lot of sense. Or, at > least, attacking one having the other in the back of your mind. > > Key normalization would simplify prefix compression considerably, for > instance. The stuff that I go into detail about is the stuff I think you'd need to do up front. Prefix compression would be a "nice to have", but I think you'd specifically do key normalization, suffix truncation, and adding the heap TID to the key space all up front. > 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. I do mention that on the Wiki page. I also describe ways that these techniques have some non-obvious benefits for VACUUM B-Tree page deletion, which you should get "for free" once you do the 3 things I mentioned. A lot of the benefits for VACUUM are seen in the worst case, which is when they're really needed. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
