On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:43:52PM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote: > Could the new file not be made to cover the next available 1GB of file > space, that is a new physical file ? > > This could made using of same kind of machinery my proposal for > concurrent index does (i.e. locks that forbid putting new tuples in > certain tuple ranges)
I think your proposals are too "handwavy", but there is a similar mechanism outlined for on-line index reorganizarion, whereby new tuples can be inserted concurrently with the reorganization, being stored on a "spill area". See @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZouS96, author = {C. Zou and B. Salzberg}, editor = {H. V. Jagadish and Inderpal Singh Mumick}, title = {On-line Reorganization of Sparsely-populated B+trees}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 4-6, 1996}, publisher = {ACM Press}, year = {1996}, pages = {115-124}, bibsource = {DBLP, \url{http://dblp.uni-trier.de}} } -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>) "Para tener más hay que desear menos" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings