Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)

On 2017-01-31 14:10:01 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> 
> > Two new APIs added.
> > 
> > - CatalogInsertHeapAndIndex which does a simple_heap_insert followed by
> > catalog updates
> > - CatalogUpdateHeapAndIndex which does a simple_heap_update followed by
> > catalog updates
> > 
> > There are only a handful callers remain for simple_heap_insert/update after
> > this patch. They are typically working with already opened indexes and
> > hence I left them unchanged.
> 
> Hmm, I was thinking we would get rid of CatalogUpdateIndexes altogether.
> Two of the callers are in the new routines (which I propose to rename to
> CatalogTupleInsert and CatalogTupleUpdate); the only remaining one is in
> InsertPgAttributeTuple.  I propose that we inline the three lines into
> all those places and just remove CatalogUpdateIndexes.  Half the out-of-
> core places that are using this function will be broken as soon as WARM
> lands anyway.  I see no reason to keep it.  (I have already modified the
> patch this way -- no need to resend).
> 
> Unless there are objections I will push this later this afternoon.

Hm, sorry for missing this earlier.  I think CatalogUpdateIndexes() is
fairly widely used in extensions - it seems like a pretty harsh change
to not leave some backward compatibility layer in place.

Andres