On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:03 -0500, Chris Mayfield wrote:
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>> 1. Having to rewrite entire tables out to disk the first time I scan
>> them, for example:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE t1 AS ...; -- writes 100 GB to disk
>> CREATE INDEX i1 ON t1 ...; -- rewrites 100 GB to disk
>>
>> The main issue is setting the hint bits for each tuple, which IMO should
>> initially be set for "CREATE TABLE AS" statements. To work around this
>> for now, I modified heap_insert (in heapam.c) to mark tuples as
>> committed when inserting them into newly added pages without WAL:
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> I'll take this for 8.5.
This was proposed once already and some difficulties were identified.
Do you remember what they were?
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greg