On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 5:36 PM Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> If somebody wants to make TIDs (or some generalized TID-like thing
> that tableam knows about) into logical identifiers, then they must
> also answer the question: identifiers of what?
>
> TIDs from Postgres heapam identify a physical
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:30 PM Chris Cleveland
wrote:
> Wow, thank you, that is some thread. It discusses the issues
> thoroughly.
If somebody wants to make TIDs (or some generalized TID-like thing
that tableam knows about) into logical identifiers, then they must
also answer the question:
> > Are there any plans in the works to widen the TID?
>
> This was recently discussed here [0] as well, but to the best of my
> knowledge no material proposal to update the APIs has been suggested
> as of yet.
>
> [0]
>
On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 17:50, Chris Cleveland
wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I'm considering a new design for a specialized table am. It would simplify
> the design if TIDs grew forever and I didn't have to implement TID reuse
> logic.
TID reuse logic also helps clean up index tuples for deleted table
All,
I'm considering a new design for a specialized table am. It would simplify
the design if TIDs grew forever and I didn't have to implement TID reuse
logic.
The current 48 bit TID is big, but I can see extreme situations where it
might not be quite big enough. If every row that gets updated
