Re: HOT - preliminary results

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:35 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> > Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >  > On 3/1/07, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >  >>
> >  > seems pretty solid except for one possible problem...at one point when
> >  > I dropped then later added the index on 'abalance', I got spammed
> >  > 'WARNING:  found a HOT-updated tuple' from psql prompt.
> > 
> > Thats intentional. We don't yet support CREATE INDEX on a HOT-updated
> > table. This is one of the major unfinished TODO items before we can
> > consider patch feature complete. I have left the warning to catch
> > this case till then.
> 
> CREATE INDEX and VACUUM FULL will require changes. Proposals for VACUUM
> FULL have been posted, CREATE INDEX should be there tomorrow.
> 
> CLUSTER does not need changes for HOT, as things stand currently, mainly
> because its MVCC behaviour is broken.             ------------------------

That's oddly discouraging.  :-)

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