From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Avery Payne <apayne@pcfruit.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A Silly Idea for Vertically-Oriented Databases
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:38:02 -0400
Message-ID: <46E556CA.4080000@mark.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189421453.4281.196.camel@ebony.site>
References: <46E1B9F4.30707@pcfruit.com>
<1189421453.4281.196.camel@ebony.site>
Simon Riggs wrote:
> ISTM we would be able to do this fairly well if we implemented
> Index-only columns. i.e. columns that don't exist in the heap, only in
> an index.
>
> Taken to the extreme, all columns could be removed from the heap and
> placed in an index(es). Only the visibility information would remain on
> the heap.
>
Wouldn't the extreme be - even the visibility information is in the
index? :-)
Cheers,
mark
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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>
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