Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql vs. aggregates

2004-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd find all this much easier to reason about if I understood how the versions of a row are organized and accessed. How does postgresql locate the correct version of a row? It doesn't, particularly. A seqscan will of course visit all the versions of a row, and an

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql vs. aggregates

2004-06-10 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that raises an interesting idea. Suppose that instead of one summary row, I had, let's say, 1000. When my application creates an object, I choose one summary row at random (or round-robin) and update it. So now, instead of one row with many versions, I have 1000 with

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql vs. aggregates

2004-06-10 Thread Nick Barr
Hi, - Original Message - From: Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql vs. aggregates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that raises an interesting