Gokulakannan Somasundaram wrote:
Thanks for all the inputs. My question would be if we decide to update the top of the HOT chain in the Index itself. Right now we are carrying a list of tuple-ids to be vacuumed, when we vacuum the index. Say we carry another list (or through some better mechanism), which would carry the corresponding live HOT tuple to be pointed. In other words we would try to make the index point to the top of the HOT chain during Vacuum.
Yeah, we could do that. It was discussed in Spring, along with many other alternatives. Search the archives for "pointer swinging".
Basically, we decided we can live without it for now. It would've required quite a bit of changes, for not that much gain. We might still want it in the future if there's demand for it. If you really need to recover those 4 bytes per HOT chain, you can use VACUUM FULL, though it does take an exclusive lock on the table.
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