Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Christian Convey
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane 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 > right now. Works

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Convey 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 get very far > without

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 writes: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cédric Villemain > wrote: >> 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

Re: [HACKERS] alternative back-end block formats

2014-01-28 Thread Christian Convey
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cédric Villemain wrote: ... > 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 read those meeting no

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 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 finding any

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 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 smaller fil

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 withou

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 kn