Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The plan Gavin Sherry and I were discussing at the Code Sprint was to store a > single "most common xmin" xmin in the per-page special area. Then have a bit > on each tuple indicating that the xmin isn't present in the tuple and instead > to use the xmin from the page footer. Any tuples with other values of xmin > would have to store that xmin normally.
This seems pretty unworkable --- anything that involves more than one field layout for tuple headers is going to be a huge PITA. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings