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

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:50:57AM +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>     And there are no bugs, right?  :-)
> 
> Yeah yeah absolutely nothing. Just like any other feature committed to Postgres
> so far ;-)
> 
> I need to polish the chain conversion patch a bit and also add missing support
> for redo, hash indexes etc. Support for hash indexes will need overloading of
> ip_posid bits in the index tuple (since there are no free bits left in hash
> tuples). I plan to work on that next and submit a fully functional patch,
> hopefully before the commit-fest starts.
> 
> (I have mentioned the idea of overloading ip_posid bits a few times now and
> haven't heard any objection so far. Well, that could either mean that nobody
> has read those emails seriously or there is general acceptance to that idea.. I
> am assuming latter :-))

Yes, I think it is the latter.

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