On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, mx wrote:
The atom unit of flash is page(512~2048byte typically). Page are
organized into blocks, typically of 32 or 64 pages. All read write and
write operations happen at page granularity, but erase operations happen
at block granularity.
You made a subtle
Thank you for all of your advices.
I think you're right. I should be more realistic. There are so many
work to do if I want to do some work on Flash disk. It's too difficult
to complete the task only in a summer. Obviously, It's not an
appropriate project idea for GSoC anyway.
Maybe I'll do it in
Hello,Everyone!
I'm a student in China. and I'm preparing for GSocC2008 in these days.
There are two questions about GSoC.
1. There's a paragraph about the Example Proposal Ideas in PostgreSQL Summer
Projects website.
*TODO Items*: A number of the items on our TODO list have been marked as
good
Thank you for your suggestion!
The biggest problem with the hash index is currently that there's no
significant performance over b-tree. If you want to work on hash
indexes, I would suggest doing benchmarking and looking at ways to
improve performance, before spending time on making it