> > The transaction information on tuples take 18 bytes plus several info > bits. It's possible just storing a subset of that would be useful but > it's unclear. And I think it would complicate the code if it had to > sometimes fetch the heap tuple to get the rest and sometimes doesn't. >
Visibility map had a similar proposal and it got accepted. Fine... I think, if you guys are going to stress so hard, then there might be some issues, which i am not foreseeing right now. > > I think you have to take up a simpler project as a first project. This > is a major overhaul of transaction information and it depends on > understanding how a lot of different areas work -- all of which are > very complex tricky areas to understand. > > Yep.. i would start by just joining in someone's project to help them out. Thanks, Gokul.