Re: MaxOffsetNumber for Table AMs

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:25 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Agreed. And we can increase the fit a good bit without needing invasive
> all-over changes. With those changes often even helping heap.
>
> E.g. tidbitmap.c's harcoded use of MaxHeapTuplesPerPage is a problem
> even for heap - we waste a lot of space that's not commonly used. A
> better datastructure (radix tree like I'd say, but several tree shaped
> approaches seem possible).

Agreed -- even if we only cared about heapam we still ought to do
something about tidbitmap.c's use of MaxHeapTuplesPerPage.

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Peter Geoghegan