Re: [HACKERS] What I'm working on

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Yes, I guess you could have both.  I just think the normal user is going
> to prefer the span stuff better, but you have a good point.  If we had
> one, we could buy time getting the other.

    For whomever is implementing the row-span stuff, can something be
added that keeps track of number of rows that are spanned?  ie. if most of
the rows are spanning the rows, then I would personally like to know that
so that I can look at dumping and reloading the data with a database set
to a higher blocksize...

    There *has* to be some overhead, performance wise, in the database
having to keep track of row-spanning, and being able to reduce that, IMHO,
is what I see being able to change the blocksize as doing...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org