Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Simone Aiken <saiken@ulfheim.net> wrote:
> When I'm learning a new system I like to first learn how to use it,
> second learn its data model, third start seriously looking at the code.
> So that Todo is ideal for my learning method.

Sure - my point is just that we usually have as a criteria for any
performance related patch that it actually does improve performance.
So, we'd need a test case.

> If there is something else that would also involve studying all the system
> tables it would also be great.  For example, I noticed we have column
> level comments on the web but not in the database itself.  This seems
> silly.  Why not have the comments in the database and have the web
> query the tables of template databases for the given versions?

Uh... I don't know what this means.

> I'm open to other suggestions as well.

Here are a few TODO items that look relatively easy to me (they may
not actually be easy when you dig in, of course):

Clear table counters on TRUNCATE
Allow the clearing of cluster-level statistics
Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions

Unfortunately we don't have a lot of easy TODOs.  People keep doing
the ones we think up...

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