From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime.casanova@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:10:05 -0300
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-01-31 14:10:01 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Hmm, I was thinking we would get rid of CatalogUpdateIndexes altogether.
> > Two of the callers are in the new routines (which I propose to rename to
> > CatalogTupleInsert and CatalogTupleUpdate); the only remaining one is in
> > InsertPgAttributeTuple. I propose that we inline the three lines into
> > all those places and just remove CatalogUpdateIndexes. Half the out-of-
> > core places that are using this function will be broken as soon as WARM
> > lands anyway. I see no reason to keep it. (I have already modified the
> > patch this way -- no need to resend).
> >
> > Unless there are objections I will push this later this afternoon.
>
> Hm, sorry for missing this earlier. I think CatalogUpdateIndexes() is
> fairly widely used in extensions - it seems like a pretty harsh change
> to not leave some backward compatibility layer in place.
Yeah, I can put it back if there's pushback about the removal, but I
think it's going to break due to WARM anyway.
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