On 28/07/16 17:52, Jason Dusek wrote:
> With regards to write amplification, it makes me think about about
> OIDs. Used to be, every row had an OID and that OID persisted across
> row versions.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/runtime-config-compatible.html#GUC-DEFAULT-WITH-OIDS
>
> Would reintroducing such a feature address some of Uber's concerns
> about multiple indexes? It could, and would do so without the implicit
> requirement of a foreign key; but it would also require a fast OID to
> CTID mapping.
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 at 10:40 Guyren Howe <guyren@gmail.com
> <mailto:guyren@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Honestly, I've never heard of anyone doing that. But it sounds
> like they had good reasons.
>
> https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
>
> Thoughts?
>
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Would it be best to increase OIDs to 64 bits?
Possibly a choice of 32/64 to be decided when the DB is created???
Cheers,
Gavin