Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Mar 31, 2017 2:17 PM, "Peter Geoghegan" wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The patch does actually store truncated/key-only tuples in the hi keys / >> non-leaf-nodes, which don't need the "included" columns. > > Hm. Since index tuples lack any means of indicating the

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Geoghegan
I don't see why you'd necessarily need to know where in the index the tuple came from under my proposal. Besides, as I already pointed out, we already hard code minus infinity handling within internal pages during tuple comparisons. Anastasia's patch could modify nbtree in exactly the same way as

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan writes: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> ... I also think we're setting up a situation where tools >> like amcheck and pg_filedump are going to be unable to cope, because >> figuring out what a particular tuple contains is going to require context >> they have

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > The reason it works fine for heap tuples is that heap tuple headers > explicitly record the number of attributes in the tuple. Index > tuples don't. Per my previous mail, I think we can change things so that Index tuples effectively record that

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> It just seems way too dangerous. > So, we end up with heap tuples with different numbers of attributes > all the time, whenever you add a column. It works fine - on decoding, > the additional columns will be treated as nu

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Andres Freund writes: >> It'd be useful for FieldStore - we'd not have to error out anymore if >> the number of columns changes (which I previously had "solved" by using >> MaxHeapAttributeNumber sized values/nulls array). > Ah, I see. But in that case you're not really truncating the

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I think you are failing to get the point. I am not on about whether > we need a few bytes more or less, I am on about whether the patch > even works. As an example, it's quite unclear what the width of > such an index tuple's nulls bitmap will b

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Geoghegan writes: >> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Hm. Since index tuples lack any means of indicating the actual number >>> of columns included (ie there's no equivalent of the natts field that >>> exists in HeapTu

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan writes: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hm. Since index tuples lack any means of indicating the actual number >> of columns included (ie there's no equivalent of the natts field that >> exists in HeapTupleHeaders), I think that this is an unreasonably >> dan

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The patch does actually store truncated/key-only tuples in the hi keys / >> non-leaf-nodes, which don't need the "included" columns. > > Hm. Since index tuples lack any means of indicating the actual number > of columns included (ie there's no e

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > You might want to have a read through that patch. I think your > opinion would be helpful in determining how close that patch is to > being ready to commit (same for WARM). Well, now that we have an extra week, maybe I'll find the time. regards, tom

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2017-03-31 13:44:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Andres Freund writes: >>> The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of >>> heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of >>> columns in the to-be generated tuple. >> I was thinking about

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-03-31 13:44:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of > > heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of > > columns in the to-be generated tuple. > > I was thinking about that this morning, and wo

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: >> The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of >> heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of >> columns in the to-be generated tuple. > > I was thinking about that this morning, and wo

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of > heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of > columns in the to-be generated tuple. I was thinking about that this morning, and wondering why exactly it would need such a thing. Certainly

Re: [HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of > heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of > columns in the to-be generated tuple. Previously the faster expression > evaluation stuff could also have bene

[HACKERS] Allow to specify #columns in heap/index_form_tuple

2017-03-31 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, The covering indexes patch [1] really needs a version of heap_form_tuple/index_form_tuple that allows to specify the number of columns in the to-be generated tuple. Previously the faster expression evaluation stuff could also have benefited form the same for both forming and deforming tuples.