Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:04:42PM +0100, Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Greg Stark napsal(a):
> It is exceptional case between V3 and V4 and only on heap, because you save
> in varlena. But between V4 and V5 we will lost another 4 bytes in a page
> header -> page header will be 28 bytes long but tuple size is same.
>
> Try to get raw free space on each page in 8.3 database and you probably see
> a lot of pages where free space is 0. My last experience is something about
> 1-2% of pages.

Is this really such a big deal? You do the null-update on the last
tuple of the page and then you do have enough room. So Phase one moves
a few tuples to make room. Phase 2 actually converts the pages inplace.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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