The transaction information on tuples take 18 bytes plus several info
bits. It's possible just storing a subset of that would be useful but
it's unclear. And I think it would complicate the code if it had to
sometimes fetch the heap tuple to get the rest and sometimes doesn't.
Visibility map had a similar proposal and it got accepted. Fine... I think, if you guys are going to stress so hard, then there might be some issues, which i am not foreseeing right now.
I think you have to take up a simpler project as a first project. This
is a major overhaul of transaction information and it depends on
understanding how a lot of different areas work -- all of which are
very complex tricky areas to understand.
Yep.. i would start by just joining in someone's project to help them out.
Thanks,
Gokul.