Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 13:42:29 Christian Convey a écrit : On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Craig Ringer cr...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 01/21/2014 07:43 PM, Christian Convey wrote: Does anyone know if this has been done before with Postgres? I would have assumed yes, but I'm not

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Christian Convey
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cédric Villemain ced...@2ndquadrant.comwrote: ... As written in the meeting notes, Tom Lane revealed an interest in pluggable storage. So it might be interesting to check that. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2013_Developer_Meeting Thanks. I just

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Convey christian.con...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cédric Villemain ced...@2ndquadrant.comwrote: As written in the meeting notes, Tom Lane revealed an interest in pluggable storage. So it might be interesting to check that.

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Christian Convey
There are a couple of really huge issues that would have to be argued out before any progress could be made. Is this something that people want to spend time on right now? As I mentioned earlier, I'm game. But it doesn't sound like I'll get very far without adult supervision.

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Convey christian.con...@gmail.com writes: There are a couple of really huge issues that would have to be argued out before any progress could be made. Is this something that people want to spend time on right now? As I mentioned earlier, I'm game. But it doesn't sound like I'll

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Christian Convey
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: TBH, I'd rather we waited till the commitfest is over. This is certainly material for 9.5, if not even further out, so there's no pressing need for a debate right now; and we have plenty of stuff we do need to deal with

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-27 Thread Christian Convey
Hi Craig, On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Craig Ringer cr...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 01/21/2014 07:43 PM, Christian Convey wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with Postgres, and I thought it might be fun to experiment with alternative formats for relation blocks, to see if I can get

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-26 Thread Craig Ringer
On 01/21/2014 07:43 PM, Christian Convey wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with Postgres, and I thought it might be fun to experiment with alternative formats for relation blocks, to see if I can get smaller files and/or faster server performance. It's not clear how you'd do this without

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 06:43:54AM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: Hi all, I'm playing around with Postgres, and I thought it might be fun to experiment with alternative formats for relation blocks, to see if I can get smaller files and/or faster server performance. Does anyone know if